Sex and the single embryo: early deveiopment in the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In embryos the maternal-to-zygotic transition (MTZ) integrates post-transcriptional regulation of maternal transcripts with transcriptional activation of the zygotic genome. Although the molecular mechanisms underlying this event are being clarified in Drosophila melanogaster, little is know about the embryogenic processes in other insect species. The recent publication of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from embryos of the global pest species Ceratitis capitata (medfly) has enabled the investigation of embryogenesis in this species and has allowed a comparison of the embryogenic processes in these two related dipteran species, C. capitata and D. melanogaster, that shared a common ancestor 80-100 mya.

Results

Using a novel PCR-based sexing method, which takes advan

SUBMITTER: Gabrieli P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2826288 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature