Cuticle secretion during larval growth in Drosophila melanogaster

1985 ◽  
Vol 31 (10) ◽  
pp. 801-813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine E. Kaznowski ◽  
Howard A. Schneiderman ◽  
Peter J. Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Larval Growth

scholarly journals Evolution of reduced pre-adult viability and larval growth rate in laboratory populations of Drosophila melanogaster selected for shorter development time

2000 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. G. PRASAD ◽  
MALLIKARJUN SHAKARAD ◽  
VISHAL M. GOHIL ◽  
V. SHEEBA ◽  
M. RAJAMANI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Development Time ◽  
Larval Growth ◽  
Dry Weight ◽  
Relative Reduction ◽  
Larval Growth Rate ◽  
Laboratory Populations ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Faster Development

Four large (n > 1000) populations of Drosophila melanogaster, derived from control populations maintained on a 3 week discrete generation cycle, were subjected to selection for fast development and early reproduction. Egg to eclosion survivorship and development time and dry weight at eclosion were monitored every 10 generations. Over 70 generations of selection, development time in the selected populations decreased by approximately 36 h relative to controls, a 20% decline. The difference in male and female development time was also reduced in the selected populations. Flies from the selected populations were increasingly lighter at eclosion than controls, with the reduction in dry weight at eclosion over 70 generations of selection being approximately 45% in males and 39% in females. Larval growth rate (dry weight at eclosion/development time) was also reduced in the selected lines over 70 generations, relative to controls, by approximately 32% in males and 24% in females. However, part of this relative reduction was due to an increase in growth rate of the controls populations, presumably an expression of adaptation to conditions in our laboratory. After 50 generations of selection had elapsed, a considerable and increasing pre- adult viability cost to faster development became apparent, with viability in the selected populations being about 22% less than that of controls at generation 70 of selection.

scholarly journals TheDrosophila melanogasterGut Microbiota Provisions Thiamine to Its Host

mBio ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. e00155-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Sannino ◽  
Adam J. Dobson ◽  
Katie Edwards ◽  
Esther R. Angert ◽  
Nicolas Buchon
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Egg Production ◽  
Larval Growth ◽  
Auxotrophic Mutant ◽  
Close Relative ◽  
Vitamin B ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Host Health ◽  
Host Development ◽  
Different Levels

ABSTRACTThe microbiota ofDrosophila melanogasterhas a substantial impact on host physiology and nutrition. Some effects may involve vitamin provisioning, but the relationships between microbe-derived vitamins, diet, and host health remain to be established systematically. We explored the contribution of microbiota in supplying sufficient dietary thiamine (vitamin B1) to supportD. melanogasterat different stages of its life cycle. Using chemically defined diets with different levels of available thiamine, we found that the interaction of thiamine concentration and microbiota did not affect the longevity of adultD. melanogaster. Likewise, this interplay did not have an impact on egg production. However, we determined that thiamine availability has a large impact on offspring development, as axenic offspring were unable to develop on a thiamine-free diet. Offspring survived on the diet only when the microbiota was present or added back, demonstrating that the microbiota was able to provide enough thiamine to support host development. Through gnotobiotic studies, we determined thatAcetobacter pomorum, a common member of the microbiota, was able to rescue development of larvae raised on the no-thiamine diet. Further, it was the only microbiota member that produced measurable amounts of thiamine when grown on the thiamine-free fly medium. Its close relativeAcetobacter pasteurianusalso rescued larvae; however, a thiamine auxotrophic mutant strain was unable to support larval growth and development. The results demonstrate that theD. melanogastermicrobiota functions to provision thiamine to its host in a low-thiamine environment.IMPORTANCEThere has been a long-standing assumption that the microbiota of animals provides their hosts with essential B vitamins; however, there is not a wealth of empirical evidence supporting this idea, especially for vitamin B1(thiamine). To determine whether this assumption is true, we usedDrosophila melanogasterand chemically defined diets with different thiamine concentrations as a model. We found that the microbiota does provide thiamine to its host, enough to allow the development of flies on a thiamine-free diet. The power of theDrosophila-microbiota system allowed us to determine that one microbiota member in particular,Acetobacter pomorum, is responsible for the thiamine provisioning. Thereby, our study verifies this long-standing hypothesis. Finally, the methods used in this work are applicable for interrogating the underpinnings of other aspects of the tripartite interaction between diet, host, and microbiota.

scholarly journals Insulin-Like Signalling Influences the Coordination of Larval Hemocyte Number with Body Size in Drosophila melanogaster

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 2213-2220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Bakopoulos ◽  
Lauren Forbes Beadle ◽  
Katherine M. Esposito ◽  
Christen K. Mirth ◽  
Coral G. Warr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Larval Growth ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Embryonic Patterning ◽  
Tissue Remodelling ◽  
Larval Phase ◽  
Larval Growth Rate ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Impaired Insulin

Blood cells, known as hemocytes in invertebrates, play important and conserved roles in immunity, wound healing and tissue remodelling. The control of hemocyte number is therefore critical to ensure these functions are not compromised, and studies using Drosophila melanogaster are proving useful for understanding how this occurs. Recently, the embryonic patterning gene, torso-like (tsl), was identified as being required both for normal hemocyte development and for providing immunity against certain pathogens. Here, we report that Tsl is required specifically during the larval phase of hematopoiesis, and that tsl mutant larvae likely have reduced hemocyte numbers due to a reduced larval growth rate and compromised insulin signaling. Consistent with this, we find that impairing insulin-mediated growth, either by nutrient deprivation or genetically, results in fewer hemocytes. This is likely the result of impaired insulin-like signaling in the hemocytes themselves, since modulation of Insulin-like Receptor (InR) activity specifically in hemocytes causes concomitant changes to their population size in developing larvae. Taken together, our work reveals the strong relationship that exists between body size and hemocyte number, and suggests that insulin-like signaling contributes to, but is not solely responsible for, keeping these tightly aligned during larval development.

scholarly journals Evolution of reduced minimum critical size as a response to selection for rapid pre-adult development in Drosophila melanogaster

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 191910 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khushboo Sharma ◽  
Nalini Mishra ◽  
Mallikarjun N. Shakarad
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Adult Development ◽  
Critical Size ◽  
Food Limitation ◽  
Larval Growth ◽  
Critical Duration ◽  
Adult Size ◽  
Time Duration ◽  
Critical Weight ◽  
Selection For

Adult body size in holometabolus insects is directly proportional to the time spent during the larval period. The larval duration can be divided into two parts: (i) pre-critical duration—time required to attain a critical size/critical weight that would result in successful completion of development and metamorphosis even under non-availability of nutrition beyond the time of attainment of critical size, and (ii) post-critical duration—the time duration from the attainment of critical size till pupation. It is of interest to decipher the relative contribution of the two larval growth phases (from the hatching of the egg to the attainment of critical size, and from the attainment of critical size to pupation) to the final adult size. Many studies using Drosophila melanogaster have shown that selecting populations for faster development results in the emergence of small adults. Some of these studies have indirectly reported the evolution of smaller critical size. Using two kinds of D. melanogaster populations, one of which is selected for faster/accelerated pre-adult development and the other their ancestral control, we demonstrate that the final adult size is determined by the time spent as larvae post the attainment of critical size despite having increased growth rate during the second larval instar. Our populations under selection for faster pre-adult development are exhibiting adaptive bailout due to intrinsic food limitation as against extrinsic food limitation in the yellow dung fly.

scholarly journals PEPTIDASE INCREASE ACCOMPANYING GROWTH OF THE LARVAL SALIVARY GLAND OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

1949 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 623-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth K. Patterson ◽  
Marjorie E. Dackerman ◽  
Jack Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Salivary Gland ◽  
Cell Division ◽  
Total Nitrogen ◽  
Larval Growth ◽  
Growth Period ◽  
Growth Stages ◽  
Larval Salivary Gland ◽  
Coupled Reactions

1. The larval salivary gland of Drosophila melanogaster offers an opportunity to study growth in a tissue in which no cell division occurs but in which the cells increase in size. 2. Measurements of alanylglycine (AG)-peptidase content have been made in three stocks of Drosophila melanogaster at different growth stages of the larval salivary gland, and have been correlated with its total nitrogen and volume. 3. During the prepupal instar, the AG-peptidase content of the gland increases parallel with total nitrogen but decreases when histolysis of the gland begins. Conversely, a benzoyl-l-arginineamide-hydrolyzing endopeptidase is not measurable until histolysis sets in. 4. In the final larval growth period of a giant mutant, there is a concomitant increase in peptidase, total nitrogen, and volume of the gland. 5. A similar association of peptidase content and total nitrogen is found in comparing glands of different sizes from the giant stock, at the time of maximal peptidase content in the prepupa. 6. The data are interpreted as evidence for an association of AG-peptidase with growth of the cells in the gland. This agrees with the earlier interpretation by Linderstrøm-Lang and Holter of data obtained from study of more complex tissues. 7. A survey of the available measurements of peptidase content in other organisms shows that wherever an increase of cell substance occurs, peptidase content increases. Conversely, peptidase remains constant where cell division is unaccompanied by an increase of cell substances. 8. The joint association of peptidases and pentosenucleic acids with protein synthesis is pointed out. 9. The possiblity is considered that peptidases may be essential parts of a unit in which coupled reactions necessary for protein synthesis occur. The rôle of the peptidases in this system is discussed. They may act either synthetically to form new peptide linkages (problematic), or hydrolytically to mobilize the necessary specific amino acids.

scholarly journals Visualizing Antineoplastic Activity with a Whole Organism Drosophila melanogaster Screen

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prince Nii Agbedanu ◽  
Tristan A. Sprague
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Larval Development ◽  
Larval Growth ◽  
Antineoplastic Activity ◽  
Low Doses ◽  
Population Decrease ◽  
Screening Protocol ◽  
Dose Concentration ◽  
Developmental Therapeutics

Cancer is a disease characterized by high mitosis rates with a loss of regulation. Many antineoplastics, those drugs used to treat cancer, act by slowing or halting mitosis. We are developing a whole-organism screening protocol to identify novel antineoplastics. After exposing Drosophila melanogaster eggs and larva to a compound, their growth rate and population decrease if mitosis inhibition or arrest occur. We screened several compounds from the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Developmental Therapeutics Program (DTP). Our screen successfully identified two compounds, toyocamycin and stictic acid, previously identified as possible antineoplastics. Toyocamycin killed a fraction of the population proportional to the dose concentration resulting in full mortality at 100 and 200 µM. At low doses, toyocamycin also slowed larval development by a mean of one day. RNAseq showed that no genes were differentially expressed in mature flies after toyocamycin exposure was halted. Stictic acid delayed larval growth by an equal or greater margin compared to toyocamycin. These results demonstrate that decreases in Drosophila growth or population can predict a compound’s antineoplastic activity and toxicity.

scholarly journals The microbiota of Drosophila suzukii influences the larval development of Drosophila melanogaster

PeerJ ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e8097 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabrielle M. Solomon ◽  
Hiruni Dodangoda ◽  
Tylea McCarthy-Walker ◽  
Rita Ntim-Gyakari ◽  
Peter D. Newell
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Larval Development ◽  
Opposite Effect ◽  
Larval Growth ◽  
Developmental Rate ◽  
Ecological Interactions ◽  
Drosophila Suzukii ◽  
Nutrition Behavior ◽  
The One ◽  
Axenic Conditions

Microorganisms play a central role in the biology of vinegar flies such as Drosophila suzukii and Drosophila melanogaster: serving as a food source to both adults and larvae, and influencing a range of traits including nutrition, behavior, and development. The niches utilized by the fly species partially overlap, as do the microbiota that sustain them, and interactions among these players may drive the development of crop diseases. To learn more about how the microbiota of one species may affect the other, we isolated and identified microbes from field-caught D. suzukii, and then characterized their effects on D. melanogaster larval development time in the laboratory. We found that the D. suzukii microbiota consistently included both yeasts and bacteria. It was dominated by yeasts of the genus Hanseniaspora, and bacteria from the families Acetobacteraceae and Enterobacteriaceae. Raising D. melanogaster under gnotobiotic conditions with each microbial isolate individually, we found that some bacteria promoted larval development relative to axenic conditions, but most did not have a significant effect. In contrast, nearly all the yeasts tested significantly accelerated larval development. The one exception was Starmerella bacillaris, which had the opposite effect: significantly slowing larval developmental rate. We investigated the basis for this effect by examining whether S. bacillaris cells could sustain larval growth, and measuring the survival of S. bacillaris and other yeasts in the larval gut. Our results suggest S. bacillaris is not digested by D. melanogaster and therefore cannot serve as a source of nutrition. These findings have interesting implications for possible interactions between the two Drosophilia species and their microbiota in nature. Overall, we found that microbes isolated from D. suzukii promote D. melanogaster larval development, which is consistent with the model that infestation of fruit by D. suzukii can open up habitat for D. melanogaster. We propose that the microbiome is an important dimension of the ecological interactions between Drosophila species.

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