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Evo-DevoEvo-DevoDevelopmental Patterns
and Evolutionary PatternsStudying Cell Patterns
10.4 Developmental Patterns and evolution• Similar developments indicate
evolutionary relationships• “Ontogeny recapitulates
Phylogeny” Ernst Haeckel
– Dev’t is a replay of ancestry
How are organisms related based on morphogenesis?
How is morphogenesis determined? What are the literal instructions?
10.6 Birth Defects
• Causes: – defective/mutant gene– environmental factors acting on developmental genes
• Polydactyl- extra digits• Spina bifida- part of neural tube does not close
completely• Anencephaly- brain does not completely develop-
exposed brain degenerates and top of skull fails to form
How do we know?• DNA RNA proteins
(responsible for phenotype/what we see expressed as a trait)
• All DNA is present in ALL cells• Not all DNA is being “read”– there4, only certain proteins are
made• RNA is the intermediary
between DNA and protein– If RNA is present, that is the proof
that the DNA is being “read”
DNA-RNA Hybridization• Shows what DNA/genes
are being expressed• DNA is made single-
stranded and tagged with flourescenceflourescence
• Labeled DNA is mixed with embryonic cells
• Under microscope, can see if DNA bound RNA
10.8 genetic equivalence of differentiating cells
• What happens to unused genes after cell differentiation?
Two theories:1. Selective- Gene- Loss Hypothesis– differentiating cells lose some genes
2. Gene Equivalence Hypothesis– All cells have same genes but only some are
active during differentiation. Genes are not lost- just not expressed.
Which Idea is Correct?• 2 experiments:– 1952- Briggs and King (Fig.
10.19)• Blastocyst v. skin cell
– Followed soon after by John Gurdon’s Experiment • Tadpole v skin cell•
CONCLUSION:
– All cells are genetically equal.– No genes are lost.– Differentiation restricts the
expression of some genes.
10.9 Determination and DifferentiationDetermination
• Many embryonic cells are committed to their fate long before differentiation ever begins.– Proteostomes tend to be
earlier deuterostomes– Snail vs. frog exp’ts
- Sometimes cells determine independently
- Other cells communicate and affect each other’s determination
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsxBhBsLNg8
• 2 separated frog cells- each develop into tadpole
• Snail cells were irreversibly determined already- would not develop into whole snail
*In the frog the cells adjust. The snail could not adjust because cell fate determined early in development
WHY?WHY?Proteins & RNA distribute unevenly-
separated into different cells through cleavage
10.11 Cell-Cell Interactions:Embryonic Induction
• Differentiation is more flexible in vertebrate embryos– Demonstrated by Spemann
and Mangold, 1920– Cells moved around in
embryo responded to other nearby cells and altered determination
– Example: skin ectoderm cells moved to dorsal region above notchord became neural tube instead of skin
– This process is called Embryonic Induction
– Early blastula but not late gastrula
10.11 Cell- Cell Interaction: Role of Notochord
• Spemann and Mangold– Demonstrated that the notochord
is the source of the inducing signal– Experiment: tissue determined to
become notochord was transferred to another organism 2nd notochord grew second larva formed!
• Later experiments: – Cell contact not required– Inducing proteins are released:
chordin and noggin• Chordin- notochord formation,
anterior-posterior axis• Noggin- formation of dorsal
structures, ventral ectoderm becomes nerve tissue