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Pigmentation pattern and developmental constraints: flight muscle attachment sites delimit the thoracic trident of Drosophila melanogaster

Pattern de pigmentation et contraintes développementales: les sites d'attachement des muscles du vol délimitent le trident thoracique de Drosophila melanogaster

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In their seminal paper published in 1979, Gould and Lewontin argued that some traits arise as by-products of the development of other structures and not for direct utility in themselves. We show here that this applies to the trident, a pigmentation pattern observed on the thorax of Drosophila melanogaster. Using reporter constructs, we show that the expression domain of several genes encoding pigmentation enzymes follows the trident shape. This domain is complementary to the expression pattern of stripe (sr), which encodes an essential transcription factor specifying flight muscle attachment sites. We demonstrate that sr limits the expression of these pigmentation enzyme genes to the trident by repressing them in its own expression domain, i.e. at the flight muscle attachment sites. We give evidence that repression of not only yellow but also other pigmentation genes, notably tan, is involved in the trident shape. The flight muscle attachment sites and sr expression patterns are remarkably conserved in dipterans reflecting the essential role of sr. Our data suggest that the trident is a by-product of flight muscle attachment site patterning that arose when sr was co-opted for the regulation of pigmentation enzyme coding genes.
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hal-01848865 , version 1 (25-07-2018)

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Jean-Michel Gibert, Emmanuèle Mouchel-Vielh, Frédérique Peronnet. Pigmentation pattern and developmental constraints: flight muscle attachment sites delimit the thoracic trident of Drosophila melanogaster. Scientific Reports, 2018, 8 (1), pp.5328. ⟨10.1038/s41598-018-23741-4⟩. ⟨hal-01848865⟩
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