Longitudinal visceral muscles in Drosophila fully dedifferentiate and fragment prior to their reestablishment during metamorphosis

Schultheis D, Frasch M (2023)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2023

Journal

microPublication biology

DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000756

Abstract

Although the Drosophila longitudinal visceral muscles have been shown to undergo major morphological changes during the transition from larval to adult gut musculature, there have been conflicting views as to whether these muscles persist as such during metamorphosis or whether they are built anew (Klapper 2000; Aghajanian et al. 2016). Here we present our independent analysis using HLH54Fb-eGFP as a cell type specific marker, which strengthens the proposition by Aghajanian et al. (2016) that the syncytial larval longitudinal gut muscles completely dedifferentiate and fragment into mononucleated myoblasts during pupariation before they fuse again and redifferentiate to form the adult longitudinal gut muscles.

Authors with CRIS profile

Dorothea Schultheis Lehrstuhl für Entwicklungsbiologie (Ebio) Manfred Frasch Lehrstuhl für Entwicklungsbiologie (Ebio)

How to cite

APA:

Schultheis, D., & Frasch, M. (2023). Longitudinal visceral muscles in Drosophila fully dedifferentiate and fragment prior to their reestablishment during metamorphosis. microPublication biology. https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000756

MLA:

Schultheis, Dorothea, and Manfred Frasch. "Longitudinal visceral muscles in Drosophila fully dedifferentiate and fragment prior to their reestablishment during metamorphosis." microPublication biology (2023).

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