Neofunctionalization of Toll Signaling in Insects: From Immunity to Dorsoventral Patterning

A pro-BMP function exerted by Rhodnius prolixus short gastrulation reveals great diversity in the role of BMP modulators during embryonic patterning

(2023) M. Berni et al.   Open Biology

Cell mechanics and cell-cell recognition controls by Toll-like receptors in tissue morphogenesis and homeostasis

(2022) Daiki Umetsu   FLY

Nuclear speed and cycle length co-vary with local density during syncytial blastoderm formation in a cricket

(2022) Seth Donoughe et al.   Nature Communications

The red flour beetle T. castaneum: elaborate genetic toolkit and unbiased large scale RNAi screening to study insect biology and evolution

(2022) Martin Klingler et al.   EvoDevo

Immune function of the serosa in hemimetabolous insect eggs

(2022) Chris G. C. Jacobs et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How two extraembryonic epithelia became one: serosa and amnion features and functions of Drosophila 's amnioserosa

(2022) Urs Schmidt-Ott et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Striking parallels between dorsoventral patterning in Drosophila and Gryllus reveal a complex evolutionary history behind a model gene regulatory network

(2021) Matthias Pechmann et al.   eLife

Mechanisms of transgenerational immune priming in insects

(2021) Andreas Vilcinskas   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Anterior‐posterior patterning of segments in Anopheles stephensi offers insights into the transition from sequential to simultaneous segmentation in holometabolous insects

(2021) Alys M. Cheatle Jarvela et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Time to synchronize our clocks: Connecting developmental mechanisms and evolutionary consequences of heterochrony

(2021) Mariya P. Dobreva et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

The Toll gene in Drosophila pattern formation

(2021) Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Mechanism and implications of morphogen shuttling: Lessons learned from dorsal and Cactus in Drosophila

(2020) Allison E. Schloop et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Toll-like Receptors and the Control of Immunity

(2020) Katherine A. Fitzgerald et al.   CELL

Twist-dependent ratchet functioning downstream from Dorsal revealed using a light-inducible degron

(2020) Jihyun Irizarry et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Increase in egg resistance to desiccation in springtails correlates with blastodermal cuticle formation: Eco‐evolutionary implications for insect terrestrialization

(2020) Helena C. M. Vargas et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Deciphering the molecular mechanisms of mother-to-egg immune protection in the mealworm beetle Tenebrio molitor

(2020) Guillaume Tetreau et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Evolutionary history of Polyneoptera and its implications for our understanding of early winged insects

(2019) Benjamin Wipfler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Establishment of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum as a new model system to investigate insect evolution

(2019) Isabel Almudi et al.   EvoDevo

Insect egg size and shape evolve with ecology but not developmental rate

(2019) Samuel H. Church et al.   NATURE

Arthropod segmentation

(2019) Erik Clark et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Fog signaling has diverse roles in epithelial morphogenesis in insects

(2019) Matthew Alan Benton et al.   eLife

CRISPR/Cas9-based heritable targeted mutagenesis in Thermobia domestica : A genetic tool in an apterygote development model of wing evolution

(2018) Takahiro Ohde et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Toll and Toll-like receptor signalling in development

(2018) Niki Anthoney et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Evolutionary Origins of Toll-like Receptor Signaling

(2018) Joseph J Brennan et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A revised understanding of Tribolium morphogenesis further reconciles short and long germ development

(2018) Matthew A. Benton   PLOS BIOLOGY

Toll-Like Receptors, Associated Biological Roles, and Signaling Networks in Non-Mammals

(2018) Li Nie et al.   Frontiers in Immunology

Phylogenomics and the evolution of hemipteroid insects

(2018) Kevin P. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global analysis of dorsoventral patterning in the wasp Nasonia reveals extensive incorporation of novelty in a regulatory network

(2016) Daniel Pers et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Toll Genes Have an Ancestral Role in Axis Elongation

(2016) Matthew A. Benton et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Emerging developmental genetic model systems in holometabolous insects

(2016) Urs Schmidt-Ott et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Regulation of the BMP Signaling-Responsive Transcriptional Network in the Drosophila Embryo

(2016) Lisa Deignan et al.   PLoS Genetics

Embryonic development of a collembolan, Tomocerus cuspidatus Börner, 1909: With special reference to the development and developmental potential of serosa (Hexapoda: Collembola, Tomoceridae)

(2015) Shigekazu Tomizuka et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

BMP gradients: A paradigm for morphogen-mediated developmental patterning

(2015) E. Bier et al.   SCIENCE

The iBeetle large-scale RNAi screen reveals gene functions for insect development and physiology

(2015) Christian Schmitt-Engel et al.   Nature Communications

Axis Patterning by BMPs: Cnidarian Network Reveals Evolutionary Constraints

(2015) Grigory Genikhovich et al.   Cell Reports

Dynamic BMP signaling polarized by Toll patterns the dorsoventral axis in a hemimetabolous insect

(2015) Lena Sachs et al.   eLife

Dorsoventral Polarity of the Nasonia Embryo Primarily Relies on a BMP Gradient Formed without Input from Toll

(2014) Orhan Özüak et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ancient and diverged TGF-β signaling components in Nasonia vitripennis

(2014) Orhan Özüak et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

The Fog signaling pathway: Insights into signaling in morphogenesis

(2014) Alyssa J. Manning et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

(2014) B. Misof et al.   SCIENCE

Toll signals regulate dorsal–ventral patterning and anterior–posterior placement of the embryo in the hemipteran Rhodnius prolixus

(2014) Mateus Berni et al.   EvoDevo

Components of the dorsal-ventral pathway also contribute to anterior-posterior patterning in honeybee embryos (Apis mellifera)

(2014) Megan J Wilson et al.   EvoDevo

The extraembryonic serosa is a frontier epithelium providing the insect egg with a full-range innate immune response

(2014) Chris G C Jacobs et al.   eLife

Maternal control of the Drosophila dorsal-ventral body axis

(2014) David S. Stein et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Developmental Biology

Scaling of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning by Embryo Size-Dependent Degradation of Spemann’s Organizer Signals

(2013) Hidehiko Inomata et al.   CELL

A Genetic Network Conferring Canalization to a Bistable Patterning System in Drosophila

(2013) Jackie Gavin-Smyth et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Immune competence in insect eggs depends on the extraembryonic serosa

(2013) Chris G.C. Jacobs et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Patterning the dorsal–ventral axis of the wasp Nasonia vitripennis

(2013) Thomas Buchta et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The IRAK Homolog Pelle Is the Functional Counterpart of IκB Kinase in the Drosophila Toll Pathway

(2013) Jessica Daigneault et al.   PLoS One

The extraembryonic serosa protects the insect egg against desiccation

(2013) C. G. C. Jacobs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Self-Organized Shuttling: Generating Sharp Dorsoventral Polarity in the Early Drosophila Embryo

(2012) Michal Haskel-Ittah et al.   CELL

The evolution of oocyte patterning in insects: multiple cell-signaling pathways are active during honeybee oogenesis and are likely to play a role in axis patterning

(2011) Megan J. Wilson et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

The evolution of dorsal-ventral patterning mechanisms in insects

(2011) J. A. Lynch et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Comparisons of the embryonic development of Drosophila , Nasonia , and Tribolium

(2011) Jeremy A. Lynch et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Developmental Biology

EGF Signaling and the Origin of Axial Polarity among the Insects

(2010) Jeremy A. Lynch et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Imaging of Transgenic Cricket Embryos Reveals Cell Movements Consistent with a Syncytial Patterning Mechanism

(2010) Taro Nakamura et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Generation of distinct signaling modes via diversification of the Egfr ligand-processing cassette

(2010) T. Rousso et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Evolution of extracellular Dpp modulators in insects: The roles of tolloid and twisted-gastrulation in dorsoventral patterning of the Tribolium embryo

(2010) Rodrigo Nunes da Fonseca et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Graded Dorsal and Differential Gene Regulation in the Drosophila Embryo

(2009) G. T. Reeves et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Symmetry Breaking During Drosophila Oogenesis

(2009) S. Roth et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Self-Regulatory Circuits in Dorsoventral Axis Formation of the Short-Germ Beetle Tribolium castaneum

(2008) Rodrigo Nunes da Fonseca et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

How the Dorsal gradient works: Insights from postgenome technologies

(2008) J.-W. Hong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extraembryonic development in insects and the acrobatics of blastokinesis

(2007) Kristen A. Panfilio   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY