Research aimed at understanding the mechanisms underlying embryo development ... development in Drosophila. The wings are generated from a set of cells grouped into different segments or ...

In this regard, the fruit fly (Drosophila ... cell resolution in embryos and how these DNA regions often represent active developmental enhancers. 'Enhancers' are DNA segments that act as control ...

They all look alike under the microscope. However, each cell of a Drosophila melanogaster embryo already knows by then whether it is destined to become a neuron or a muscle cell—or part of the ...

The mature eggs of Drosophila melanogaster contains information that determines the major axis of the embryo. This information is built into the egg during oogenesis and functions in the early embryo ...

Details of this work appeared August 31 in the journal Science, in an article entitled “The Drosophila Embryo at Single-Cell Transcriptome Resolution.” “We produce a virtual embryo with ...

This embryo then undergoes three distinct larval stages, eventually maturing into an adult Drosophila. Development of an adult fly only takes 10 days from fertilization. The female fly can produce ...

Recent research from the Developmental and Regulatory Genomics group showed that the 3D genome structure of the Drosophila embryo was established at the onset of zygotic genome activation, an early ...

Results of the study were published in PNAS on Nov. 14 as "HIRA and dPCIF1 coordinately establish totipotent chromatin and control orderly ZGA in Drosophila embryos." The zygotic genome remains ...