Establishment of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum as a new model system to investigate insect evolution
Abstract The great capability of insects to adapt to new environments promoted their extraordinary diversification, resulting in the group of Metazoa with the largest number of species distributed worldwide. To understand this enormous diversity, it is essential to investigate lineages that would al...
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| author | Isabel Almudi Carlos A. Martín-Blanco Isabel M. García-Fernandez Adrián López-Catalina Kristofer Davie Stein Aerts Fernando Casares |
| author_facet | Isabel Almudi Carlos A. Martín-Blanco Isabel M. García-Fernandez Adrián López-Catalina Kristofer Davie Stein Aerts Fernando Casares |
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| description | Abstract The great capability of insects to adapt to new environments promoted their extraordinary diversification, resulting in the group of Metazoa with the largest number of species distributed worldwide. To understand this enormous diversity, it is essential to investigate lineages that would allow the reconstruction of the early events in the evolution of insects. However, research on insect ecology, physiology, development and evolution has mostly focused on few well-established model species. The key phylogenetic position of mayflies within Paleoptera as the sister group of the rest of winged insects and life history traits of mayflies make them an essential order to understand insect evolution. Here, we describe the establishment of a continuous culture system of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum and a series of experimental protocols and omics resources that allow the study of its development and its great regenerative capability. Thus, the establishment of Cloeon as an experimental platform paves the way to understand genomic and morphogenetic events that occurred at the origin of winged insects. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f94ad3641c0048d1a39245d4c878bc8a2022-12-21T19:00:55ZengBMCEvoDevo2041-91392019-04-0110111010.1186/s13227-019-0120-yEstablishment of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum as a new model system to investigate insect evolutionIsabel Almudi0Carlos A. Martín-Blanco1Isabel M. García-Fernandez2Adrián López-Catalina3Kristofer Davie4Stein Aerts5Fernando Casares6GEM-DMC2 Unit, The CABD (CSIC-UPO-JA)GEM-DMC2 Unit, The CABD (CSIC-UPO-JA)GEM-DMC2 Unit, The CABD (CSIC-UPO-JA)GEM-DMC2 Unit, The CABD (CSIC-UPO-JA)Laboratory of Computational Biology, VIB Center for Brain & Disease ResearchLaboratory of Computational Biology, VIB Center for Brain & Disease ResearchGEM-DMC2 Unit, The CABD (CSIC-UPO-JA)Abstract The great capability of insects to adapt to new environments promoted their extraordinary diversification, resulting in the group of Metazoa with the largest number of species distributed worldwide. To understand this enormous diversity, it is essential to investigate lineages that would allow the reconstruction of the early events in the evolution of insects. However, research on insect ecology, physiology, development and evolution has mostly focused on few well-established model species. The key phylogenetic position of mayflies within Paleoptera as the sister group of the rest of winged insects and life history traits of mayflies make them an essential order to understand insect evolution. Here, we describe the establishment of a continuous culture system of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum and a series of experimental protocols and omics resources that allow the study of its development and its great regenerative capability. Thus, the establishment of Cloeon as an experimental platform paves the way to understand genomic and morphogenetic events that occurred at the origin of winged insects.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13227-019-0120-yEvolutionary and developmental biologyInsect evolutionEmbryogenesisPaleopteraMayfliesEphemeroptera |
| spellingShingle | Isabel Almudi Carlos A. Martín-Blanco Isabel M. García-Fernandez Adrián López-Catalina Kristofer Davie Stein Aerts Fernando Casares Establishment of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum as a new model system to investigate insect evolution EvoDevo Evolutionary and developmental biology Insect evolution Embryogenesis Paleoptera Mayflies Ephemeroptera |
| title | Establishment of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum as a new model system to investigate insect evolution |
| title_full | Establishment of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum as a new model system to investigate insect evolution |
| title_fullStr | Establishment of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum as a new model system to investigate insect evolution |
| title_full_unstemmed | Establishment of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum as a new model system to investigate insect evolution |
| title_short | Establishment of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum as a new model system to investigate insect evolution |
| title_sort | establishment of the mayfly cloeon dipterum as a new model system to investigate insect evolution |
| topic | Evolutionary and developmental biology Insect evolution Embryogenesis Paleoptera Mayflies Ephemeroptera |
| url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13227-019-0120-y |
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