Wing homoeosis in Lepidoptera: A survey

Sibatani, Atuhiro

doi:10.1016/0012-1606(80)90069-x

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“…Homeosis is a naturally occurring rare phenomenon with formation of a local body part having characteristics that are normally found in a related part at another location in the body. This phenomenon had been studied exclusively in Drosophila melanogaster but can also be found in a variety of insects and other organisms (53). Although homeosis is rarely found in wild-type flies, transdetermination, a similar phenomenon, can be easily induced by in vivo culture and subsequent transplantation of imaginal discs between different individuals or by directly manipulating functions of various master and/or homeotic genes.…”

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Wing-to-Leg Homeosis by Spineless Causes Apoptosis Regulated by Fish-lips, a Novel Leucine-Rich Repeat Transmembrane Protein

Adachi‐Yamada

Harumoto²,

Sakurai

et al. 2005

Molecular and Cellular Biology

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Growth, patterning, and apoptosis are mutually interactive during development. For example, cells that select an abnormal fate in a developing field are frequently removed by apoptosis. An important issue in this process that needs to be resolved is the mechanism used by cells to discern their correct fate from an abnormal fate. In order to examine this issue, we developed an animal model that expresses the dioxin receptor homolog Spineless (Ss) ectopically in the Drosophila wing. The presence of mosaic clones ectopically expressing ss results in a local transformation of organ identity, homeosis, from wing into a leg or antenna. The cells with misspecified fates subsequently activate c-Jun N-terminal kinase to undergo apoptosis in an autonomous or nonautonomous manner depending on their position within the wing, suggesting that a cell-cell interaction is, at least in some cases, involved in the detection of misspecified cells. Similar position dependence is commonly observed when various homeotic genes controlling the body segments are ectopically expressed. The autonomous and nonautonomous apoptosis caused by ss is regulated by a novel leucine-rich repeat family transmembrane protein, Fish-lips (Fili) that interacts with surrounding normal cells. These data support a mechanism in which the lack of some membrane proteins helps to recognize the presence of different cell types and direct these cells to an apoptotic fate in order to exclude them from the normal developing field.

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Wing-to-Leg Homeosis by Spineless Causes Apoptosis Regulated by Fish-lips, a Novel Leucine-Rich Repeat Transmembrane Protein

Adachi‐Yamada

Harumoto²,

Sakurai

et al. 2005

Molecular and Cellular Biology

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“…For example, vegetation structure is important to some arthropods because it can affect their ability to thermoregulate and reproduce (Holl 1996). However, vegetation loss for agricultural purposes does not threaten all arthropods equally (Fleishman et al 1999), with some relatively smallscale agriculture maintaining open, early seral biotopes favoured by some arthropod species (Shreeve and Mason 1980;Sibatani 1980). …”

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Comparative footprint of alien, agricultural and restored vegetation on surface-active arthropods

Magoba

Samways

2011

Biol Invasions

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Both invasive alien trees and agricultural conversion have major impacts on biodiversity. We studied here the comparative impact of these two types of land transformation on a wide range of surface-active arthropod species using pitfall traps, with evergreen sclerophyllous natural vegetation (fynbos) as the control. The study was in the Cape Floristic Region, a global biodiversity hotspot, where alien trees are of major concern and where vineyards replace natural fynbos vegetation. Surface-active arthropods were selected as they are species rich, relatively immobile, and occur in high abundance. We hypothesized that the impact of the two types of land cover transformation would produce similar qualitative and quantitative effects on the arthropods. We also compared the results in the transformed and natural areas with those in areas cleared of alien trees. Arthropod species richness in cleared areas was higher than in vineyards and more similar to that in natural fynbos, while alien trees had the lowest. Overall abundance scores were highest in cleared areas, closely followed by fynbos, then vineyards and lowest in alien trees. Several species were restricted to each vegetation type, including alien trees. In terms of assemblage composition, all vegetation types were significantly different, although fynbos and vineyards grouped, suggesting that vineyards have less impact on the arthropod community than do alien trees. When rare species were excluded, vineyards and cleared sites grouped, indicating some recovery but only involving those species that were common and habitat tolerant. Our results suggest that vineyards retain a greater complement of indigenous species than alien trees, but that clearing of these aliens soon encourages establishment of indigenous species. Although there were significant differences in soil moisture and litter depth within and between vegetation types, we did not record them as significantly affecting species richness or abundance, even in alien vegetation, an encouraging sign for restoration.

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“…Homeosis is a developmental aberration where one structure is converted, either completely or partially, into another (Sibatani 1980). In butterfly wing patterns, Sibatani (1980) recognised that homeosis manifested as a replication of wing patterns between the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the same wing, or between corresponding areas of the forewing and hindwing. In the case of forewing-hindwing pattern homeosis, Sibatani (1980) noted that the area of wing membrane affected tended to be bounded anteriorly by veins M 1 -M 2 , which led him to present a hypothesis that homeotic aberrations are due to mutations of the bithorax group of genes.…”

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The first record of a homeotic wing pattern aberration in an Australian butterfly from a specimen of Papilio aegeus ormenus Guérin-Méneville, 1830 (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae)

Wood¹,

Nielsen²

2018

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Wing homoeosis in Lepidoptera: A survey

Cited by 25 publications

References 19 publications

Wing-to-Leg Homeosis by Spineless Causes Apoptosis Regulated by Fish-lips, a Novel Leucine-Rich Repeat Transmembrane Protein

Wing-to-Leg Homeosis by Spineless Causes Apoptosis Regulated by Fish-lips, a Novel Leucine-Rich Repeat Transmembrane Protein

Comparative footprint of alien, agricultural and restored vegetation on surface-active arthropods

The first record of a homeotic wing pattern aberration in an Australian butterfly from a specimen of Papilio aegeus ormenus Guérin-Méneville, 1830 (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae)

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