Regulative interactions between cells of wing discs from different dipteran species |
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Authors: | John Williams CLynne Littlefield Rolf Nöthiger |
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Institution: | Zoological Institute, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | The mechanism by which patterns are produced appears to be repeated in each segment of an animal, and it has been proposed that it may even have been conserved in evolution so that different species would have the same system of positional information. This idea has been tested by mixing cells of a defined fragment of the wing disc of Drosophila melanogaster with wing disc fragments of five other dipteran species to assay the ability of these disc fragments to stimulate intercalary regeneration of the D. melanogaster cells. The genetically marked (y; mwh) D. melanogaster fragment was mechanically mixed with wing discs or wing disc fragments of four drosophilids (D. melanogaster as a control, D. virilis, D. hydei, Zaprionus vittiger), of Musca domestica, and of Piophila casei. The mixed aggregates were cultured in vivo for 7 days, then metamorphosed in D. melanogaster larval hosts. The D. melanogaster fragments were only stimulated to regenerate when combined with complementary fragments from D. melanogaster or D. virilis wing discs. In the combination between D. melanogaster and D. hydei, the tissue formed integrated mosaic patterns, but no regeneration ensued. The one positive result (D. melanogaster mixed with D. virilis) shows that positional cues can be exchanged and correctly interpreted between cells of different species. The negative results do not prove that the mechanism for establishing patterns is different in the tested species, but may be due to incompatibilities that are not related to pattern formation. |
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