... of BMPs to generate PGCs in the cricket, highlighting that germ cell specification mechanisms are conserved between mice and crickets. Inductive signaling Primordial germ cell PGC Blimp1 Prdm1 Gryllus bimaculatus RNA interference The cells that make up multicellular organisms can...

... . Sander K. ( 1976 ). Specification of the basic body pattern in insect embryogenesis . Adv. Insect Physiol. 12 , 125 - 238 . Schoppmeier M. , Damen W. G. ( 2001 ). Double-stranded RNA interference in the spider Cupiennius salei: the role of Distal-less is evolutionarily...

... expression during early development. To distinguish between a functional role for the transcript and properties inherent to transcription of long ncRNAs, we employed RNA interference-based technology to deplete Kcnq1ot1 transcripts. We hypothesized that post-transcriptional depletion of Kcnq1ot1 ncRNA would...

..., University Medical Center, rue Michel Servet 1, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland 10 1 2007 © 2007. 2007 Cnidarian Evolution Apical patterning Regeneration Neurogenesis Neuronal progenitors Interstitial stem cells RNA interference ParaHox gene β-Tubulin Hydra belongs...

...-dependent gene expression in termite workers. Our approach involved RNA interference (RNAi), bioassays and quantification of gene expression. We first investigated the expression of 17 morphogenesis-associated genes in response to RNAi-based hexamerin silencing. Hexamerin silencing resulted in significant...

...-TN1-123 antibody that binds specifically to the Byn protein in Drosophila embryos( Kispert et al., 1994 ). However, the precise expression patterns and functions of byn have not been investigated in short- and intermediate-germband insects. Recent functional studies using RNA interference...

... signaling pathway by differentially regulating their expression. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: donahoe.patricia@mgh.harvard.edu ) 30 3 2006 © 2006. 2006 MIS MIS type I/II receptor SMAD Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition RNA interference Organ culture Rat...

... and imaginal discs. Here, we test the signalling properties of these molecules in the embryonic epidermis. We demonstrate that RNA interference silencing of dally-like , but not dally , gives a segment polarity phenotype identical to that of null mutations in wingless or hedgehog. Using heterologous expression...

...Petr Svoboda; Paula Stein; Harutoshi Hayashi; Richard M. Schultz ABSTRACT Specific mRNA degradation mediated by double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), which is termed RNA interference (RNAi), is a useful tool with which to study gene function in several systems. We report here that in mouse oocytes, RNAi...