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Chapter 13 Genetic Control of Development Jones and Bartlett Publishers © 2005 • How do cells choose which type of cell to become during embryonic development? • The first few embryonic cells give rise to all other cells. They are called totipotent, or pleuripotent. • Cell fate decisions result in differentiation into all cell types in an organism. Early stages in the development of an animal Developmental processes • Cell-autonomous developmental restrictions – Common in C. elegans • Positional information / intercellular signaling • Morphogen- a molecule the participates directly in control of growth and development. Use of cell transplantation during early embryonic development to ascertain the timing of fate determination The first 3 divisions during the development of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans Transplantation of extra cells during early development of sea urchin results in abnormal development A female worm Caenorhabditis elegans There are two kinds of worms- hermaphrodites (XX) and males(XO). 60 hours from egg to adult (at 20 C), 300 eggs produced in a few days, 10,000 on a petri plate. Transparent bodies have 959 somatic nuclei. A cell lineage diagram showing a cell that undergoes programmed cell death (apoptosis) and three that become differentiated Types of developmental mutations • Transformation mutations • Segregation mutations • Execution mutations Comparison of the wild type differentiation pattern with that of a transformation mutant Comparison of the wild type cell division pattern with that of a segregation mutant Comparison of the wild type cell division and differentiation pattern with that of an execution mutant The lineage of the cells Z1.ppp and Z4.aaa P0 is the fertilized egg “p” and “a” stand for posterior and anterior cells in a lineage The effects of ablation (destruction) or a recessive (or dominant) mutation in the lin-12 gene on the fate of Z1.ppp and Z4.aaa cells The protein coded by the lin-12 gene is a membrane receptor Activation of a cell surface receptor and cell-to-cell signaling is required for proper vulval development Time scale (at 25oC) of stages in the development of an adult Drosophila from a fertilized egg Very early steps in the development of Drosophila embryo Fate map of Drosophila blastoderm The segmentation pattern of Drosophila larva Sites in the Drosophila larva where the 3 classes of segmentation genes are expressed Anterior-posterior organization of Drosophila and the genes controlling it Segments in the larva and the adult parts they generate Location of the imaginal discs in the larva and the parts they generate in the adult Drosophila Uniform pattern of vestigial expression in the wing imaginal disk Evolutionary scheme by which the Ubx homolog expressed in segment T3 produces different developmental pathways The flower in Arabidopsis thaliana is organized in 4 whorls Whorls in which Arabidopsis genes controlling flower parts are expressed