Developmental Biology Chapter 5: Patterning the body plan in animals - -Vertebrates Patterning the body plan in animals 1 Development of the Drosophila body plan Specification of the antero-posterior and dorso-ventral axis in Drosophila oocyte (体轴建立的设定) Setting up the body axes in Drosophila Patterning the Drosophila embryo Establishment of the segment identity along the AP axis in adult Drosophila 2 Patterning the vertebrate body plan Setting up the body axes in amphibians (Xenopus) Somite formation and antero-posterior patterning (the mesodermal derivative) Patterning the vertebrate nervous system (the ectodermal derivative) Specifying the left-right axis (left-right asymmetry of ans) The body axes are specified during mid-oogenesis through the reciprocal signaling between the oocyte and the surrounding follicle cells The sequential expression of different sets of zygotic genes patterns the body plan along the AP axis Segment polarity genes Homeotic selector genes All vertebrates, despite their many outward differences, have a similar basic body plan The skeleton of a mouse embryo illustrates the vertebrate body plan The AP axis: head, trunk with paired appendages (vertebral column脊柱) and the post-anal tail The vertebral column is divided into cervical (neck), thoracic (chest), lumbar (lower back), and sacral (hip and lower) regions The DV axis: the mouth defining the ventral side and the spinal cord the dorsal side Left-right symmetry: while the vertebrate body is outwardly symmetric with respect to the left and right sides, single ans such as the heart and liver are arranged asymmetrically with respect to the dorsal midline Patterning the body plan in vertebrates Early development in Drosophila is largely under the control of maternal factors that sequentially activate a different sets of the embryo’s own genes (zygotic genes) to pattern the body plan. Vertebrate axes do not form from localized determinants, as in