scholarly journals Juvenile hormone III skipped bisepoxide is widespread in true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 202242
Author(s):  
Keiji Matsumoto ◽  
Toyomi Kotaki ◽  
Hideharu Numata ◽  
Tetsuro Shinada ◽  
Shin G. Goto
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Hormone ◽  
Common Ancestor ◽  
Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography ◽  
Insect Development ◽  
Methyl Farnesoate ◽  
True Bugs ◽  
Focal Species ◽  
Chemically Modified ◽  
The Common ◽  
Almost All

Juvenile hormone (JH) plays important roles in almost every aspect of insect development and reproduction. JHs are a group of acyclic sesquiterpenoids, and their farnesol backbone has been chemically modified to generate a homologous series of hormones in some insect lineages. JH III (methyl farnesoate, 10,11-epoxide) is the most common JH in insects, but Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) and ‘higher’ Diptera (suborder: Brachycera; flies) have developed their own unique JHs. Although JH was first proposed in the hemipteran suborder Heteroptera (true bugs), the chemical identity of the heteropteran JH was only recently determined. Furthermore, recent studies revealed the presence of a novel JH, JH III skipped bisepoxide (JHSB 3 ), in some heteropterans, but its taxonomic distribution remains largely unknown. In the present study, we investigated JHSB 3 production in 31 heteropteran species, covering almost all heteropteran lineages, through ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. We found that all of the focal species produced JHSB 3 , indicating that JHSB 3 is widespread in heteropteran bugs and the evolutionary occurrence of JHSB 3 ascends to the common ancestor of Heteroptera.

scholarly journals Loss of plastid developmental genes coincides with a reversion to monoplastidy in hornworts

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Istvan MacLeod ◽  
Parth K Raval ◽  
Simon Stockhorst ◽  
Michael Knopp ◽  
Eftychios Frangedakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Common Ancestor ◽  
Nuclear Division ◽  
Developmental Pathways ◽  
Ancestral State ◽  
Plastid Division ◽  
Plastid Development ◽  
State Reconstruction ◽  
Transcriptomic Data ◽  
The Common ◽  
Almost All

The first plastid evolved from an endosymbiotic cyanobacterium in the common ancestor of the Archaeplastida. The transformative steps from cyanobacterium to organelle included the transfer of control over developmental processes; a necessity for the host to orchestrate, for example, the fission of the organelle. The plastids of almost all embryophytes divide independent from nuclear division, leading to cells housing multiple plastids. Hornworts, however, are monoplastidic (or near-monoplastidic) and their photosynthetic organelles are a curious exception among embryophytes for reasons such as the occasional presence of pyrenoids. Here we screened genomic and transcriptomic data of eleven hornworts for components of plastid developmental pathways. We find intriguing differences among hornworts and specifically highlight that pathway components involved in regulating plastid development and biogenesis were differentially lost in this group of bryophytes. In combination with ancestral state reconstruction, our data suggest that hornworts have reverted back to a monoplastidic phenotype due to the combined loss of two plastid division-associated genes: ARC3 and FtsZ2.

scholarly journals Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity and air-sacs in the earliest pterosaurs

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 557-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Butler ◽  
Paul M. Barrett ◽  
David J. Gower
Keyword(s):  
Respiratory System ◽  
Common Ancestor ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Air Sacs ◽  
The Common ◽  
Respiratory Systems ◽  
Almost All

Patterns of postcranial skeletal pneumatization (PSP) indicate that pterosaurs possessed components of a bird-like respiratory system, including a series of ventilatory air-sacs. However, the presence of PSP in the oldest known pterosaurs has not been unambiguously demonstrated by previous studies. Here we provide the first unequivocal documentation of PSP in Late Triassic and earliest Jurassic pterosaurs. This demonstrates that PSP and, by inference, air-sacs were probably present in the common ancestor of almost all known pterosaurs, and has broader implications for the evolution of respiratory systems in bird-line archosaurs, including dinosaurs.

scholarly journals Giant GAL gene clusters for the melibiose-galactose pathway in Torulaspora

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anjan Venkatesh ◽  
Anthony L. Murray ◽  
Aisling Y. Coughlan ◽  
Kenneth H. Wolfe
Keyword(s):  
Gene Cluster ◽  
Glucose Transporter ◽  
Common Ancestor ◽  
Yeast Species ◽  
Gene Clusters ◽  
Yeast Strains ◽  
The Common ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Horizontal Transfers ◽  
Catabolism Pathway

AbstractIn many yeast species the three genes at the center of the galactose catabolism pathway, GAL1, GAL10 and GAL7, are neighbors in the genome and form a metabolic gene cluster. We report here that some yeast strains in the genus Torulaspora have much larger GAL clusters that include genes for melibiase (MEL1), galactose permease (GAL2), glucose transporter (HGT1), phosphoglucomutase (PGM1), and the transcription factor GAL4, in addition to GAL1, GAL10, and GAL7. Together, these 8 genes encode almost all the steps in the pathway for catabolism of extracellular melibiose (a disaccharide of galactose and glucose). We show that a progenitor 5-gene cluster containing GAL 7-1-10-4-2 was likely present in the common ancestor of Torulaspora and Zygotorulaspora. It added PGM1 and MEL1 in the ancestor of most Torulaspora species. It underwent further expansion in the T. pretoriensis clade, involving the fusion of three progenitor clusters in tandem and the gain of HGT1. These giant GAL clusters are highly polymorphic in structure, and subject to horizontal transfers, pseudogenization and gene losses. We identify recent horizontal transfers of complete GAL clusters from T. franciscae into one strain of T. delbrueckii, and from a relative of T. maleeae into one strain of T. globosa. The variability and dynamic evolution of GAL clusters in Torulaspora indicates that there is strong natural selection on the GAL pathway in this genus.

scholarly journals Bilaterally symmetric axes with rhizoids composed the rooting structure of the common ancestor of vascular plants

2017 ◽  
Vol 373 (1739) ◽  
pp. 20170042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander J. Hetherington ◽  
Liam Dolan
Keyword(s):  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Common Ancestor ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystem ◽  
Bilateral Symmetry ◽  
Land Plant ◽  
Land Plants ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Rhynie Chert ◽  
The Common ◽  
Almost All

There are two general types of rooting systems in extant land plants: gametophyte rhizoids and sporophyte root axes. These structures carry out the rooting function in the free-living stage of almost all land plant gametophytes and sporophytes, respectively. Extant vascular plants develop a dominant, free-living sporophyte on which roots form, with the exception of a small number of taxa that have secondarily lost roots. However, fossil evidence indicates that early vascular plants did not develop sporophyte roots. We propose that the common ancestor of vascular plants developed a unique rooting system—rhizoidal sporophyte axes. Here we present a synthesis and reinterpretation of the rootless sporophytes of Horneophyton lignieri , Aglaophyton majus , Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii and Nothia aphylla preserved in the Rhynie chert. We show that the sporophyte rooting structures of all four plants comprised regions of plagiotropic (horizontal) axes that developed unicellular rhizoids on their underside. These regions of axes with rhizoids developed bilateral symmetry making them distinct from the other regions which were radially symmetrical. We hypothesize that rhizoidal sporophyte axes constituted the rooting structures in the common ancestor of vascular plants because the phylogenetic positions of these plants span the origin of the vascular lineage. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘The Rhynie cherts: our earliest terrestrial ecosystem revisited’.

Fibrinolytic Activity of the Arterial Wall

1969 ◽  
Vol 21 (01) ◽  
pp. 001-011 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Onoyama ◽  
K Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Carotid Artery ◽  
Fibrinolytic Activity ◽  
Arterial Wall ◽  
Aortic Wall ◽  
Internal Carotid ◽  
Atheromatous Plaque ◽  
Human Fibrinogen ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Common ◽  
Almost All

SummaryThe tissue fibrinolysis was studied in 550 specimens of 7 kinds of arteries from 80 fresh cadavers, using Astrup’s biochemical method and Todd’s histochemical method with human fibrinogen.In the microscopically normal aortic wall, almost all specimens had the fibrinolytic activity which was the strongest in the adventitia and the weakest in the media.The fibrinolytic activity seemed to be localized in the endothelium.The stronger activity lay in the adventitia of the aorta and the pulmonary artery and all layers of the cerebral artery.The activity of the intima and media of the macroscopically normal areas seemed to be stronger in the internal carotid artery than in the common carotid artery.Mean fibrinolytic activity of the macroscopically normal areas seemed to decrease with age in the intima and the media of the thoracic aorta and seemed to be low in the cases with a high atherosclerotic index.The fibrinolytic activities of all three layers of the fibrous thickened aorta seemed to decrease, and those of the media and the adventitia of the atheromatous plaque to increase.The fibrinolytic activity of the arterial wall might play some role in the progress of atherosclerosis.

scholarly journals Deciphering the effects of kosmotrope and chaotrope salts during aqueous two phase extraction (ATPE) of polyphenolic compounds and glycoalkaloids from the leaves of a nutraceutical plant, Solanum retroflexum, with the aid of UPLC-QTOF-MS

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tebogo Mokgehle ◽  
Ntakadzeni Madala ◽  
Wilson Gitari ◽  
Nikita Tavengwa
Keyword(s):  
Polar Compounds ◽  
Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography ◽  
Polyphenolic Compounds ◽  
Phase Extraction ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Solanum Retroflexum ◽  
Chaotropic Salts ◽  
Almost All ◽  
First Time ◽  
Aqueous Two Phase Extraction

AbstractSolanum plants (Solanaceae) are renowned source of nutraceuticals and have widely been explored for their phytochemical constituents. This work investigated the effects of kosmotropic and chaotropic salts on the number of phytochemicals extracted from the leaves of a nutraceutical plant, Solanum retroflexum, and analyzed on the ultra-performance liquid chromatography hyphenated to a quadrupole time of flight mass spectrometer (UPLC-QTOF-MS) detector. Here, a total of 20 different compounds were putatively characterized. The majority of the identified compounds were polyphenols and glycoalkaloids. Another compound, caffeoyl malate was identified for the first time in this plant. Glycoalkaloids such as solanelagnin, solamargine, solasonine, β-solanine (I) and β-solanine (II) were found to be extracted by almost all the salts used herein. Kosmotrope salts, overall, were more efficient in extracting polar compounds with 4 more polyphenolic compounds extracted compared to the chaotropes. Chaotropes were generally more selective for the extraction of less polar compounds (glycoalkaloids) with 3 more extracted than the kosmotropes. The chaotrope and the kosmotrope that extracted the most metabolites were NaCl and Na2SO4, respectively, with 12 metabolites extracted for each salt. This work demonstrated that a comprehensive metabolome of S. retroflexum, more than what was previously reported on the same plant, can be achieved by application of kosmotropes and chaotropes as extractants with the aid of the Aqueous Two Phase Extraction approach. The best-performing salts, Na2SO4 or NaCl, could potentially be applied on a commercial scale, to meet the ever-growing demand of the studied metabolites. The Aqueous Two Phase Extraction technique was found to be efficient in simultaneous extraction of multiple metabolites which can be applied in metabolomics.

The Possible Common Origin of tRNA and 5S rRNA

1983 ◽  
Vol 38 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 501-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mária Ujhelyi
Keyword(s):  
Common Ancestor ◽  
Common Origin ◽  
5S Rrna ◽  
Mitochondrial Trna ◽  
Trna Molecule ◽  
The Common

Seryl tRNA (anticodon GCU) from mammalian mito­chondria shows in comparison to other mitochondrial tRNAs additional special features differing from the generalized tRNA model. When arranged in the tradi­tional cloverleaf form, eight bases fall within the TΨC loop, and the entire dihydrouridine loop is lacking. This seryl tRNA molecule is therefore shorter than other tRNAs. It was originally thought to represent a mito­chondrial analogon of 5 S rRNA and its precise classifica­tion is still disputed. The present studies suggest that this mitochondrial tRNA represents a fossil molecule which is related to the common ancestor of the present tRNA and 5 S rRNA molecules.

scholarly journals Some 'Philosophicall Scribbles' attributed to Robert Hooke

1980 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-32 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Robert Hooke ◽  
Separate Sheet ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Almost All

Among the Hooke manuscripts held in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, is an undated document of four pages, entitled (on a separate sheet): XVI Philosophicall Scribbles’. We shall offer here an edition of this hitherto unpublished document; its contents will be discussed and compared with Hooke’s published theories of the soul, mind action and memory in his ‘Lectures of light’ (I); and some consideration will be given to the general adequacy of Hooke’s epistemology, as revealed in the ‘Scribbles’ and the ‘Lectures of light’, and its place in history. A transcription of the ‘Philosophicall scribbles’ reads as follows: It has pleased y e al wise contriuer of y e Universe to send man into the world almost/ready tempered,/like a peice of soft wax to receiue those impressions and stamps, which he has though[t] it most conuenient to receiue, though altogether unfit for/some/other perhaps, which his infinite wisdom saw good to w th hold. Those stamps are only of five kinds. And are generally comprisd under one name, to wit The Objects of Sense, /and this ? is calld the common sense,/But this is only that passiue facully [ sic ] w ch this lump or mass of bodys come furnished w th all, w ch is much y e same w th what y e bodys of almost all animalls are as well if not in a better manner endowed.

Epicuticular waxes of the genus Hordeum: a survey of their chemical composition and ultrastructure

1989 ◽  
Vol 67 (11) ◽  
pp. 3219-3226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard R. Baum ◽  
A. Pat Tulloch ◽  
L. Grant Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Alcohol Content ◽  
Total Absence ◽  
Average Alcohol ◽  
The Common ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Whole Plants ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Group 1

This study was based on 148 accessions representing 39 species of Hordeum. SEM ultrastructural morphology of waxes was based on individual spikelets, whereas waxes' chemical composition was assessed from whole plants. When all the data, in the form of individual accessions, were subjected to various cluster analyses methods, no groupings were revealed. But when the data were first summarized by species and then subjected to clustering, two polythetic groups of species were detected. Group 1 is characterized by species with 40–60% average alcohol content and by the common presence of diketones, whereas group 2 is characterized by species with 61 – 80% average alcohol content, by the total absence of hydroxy-β-diketone, and almost all species without β-diketone. The chemical data were then subjected to classificatory discriminant analysis to assess if a single previously unclassified accession could be identified into one of the two groupings. The nature of the differences between the two groupings was described by means of a canonical discriminant analysis. Mostly only plates and filaments were detected, and in many accessions the filaments were widened, appeared platelike, and were characteristic for one group. Presence of β-diketone varied within species. Hordeum violaceum was found to be unique in chemical composition.

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