Developmental genetics and evolution of insect head and brain

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Gregor Bucher
• Subject Area: Evolutionary Cell and Developmental Biology (Zoology)
• Term: from 2013 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 226546790

• Final Report Year: 2020

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• A key role forfoxQ2in anterior head and central brain patterning in insects. Development, Vol. 144. 2017, pp. 2969-2981.
  Kitzmann, P., Weißkopf, M., Schacht, M.I., Bucher, G.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.147637)
• A morphological novelty evolved by co-option of a reduced gene regulatory network and gene recruitment in a beetle. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Vol. 285. 2018, Issue 1885, 20181373.
  Hu, Y., Schmitt-Engel, C., Schwirz, J., Stroehlein, N., Richter, T., Majumdar, U., Bucher, G.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1373)
• Double abdomen in a short-germ insect: Zygotic control of axis formation revealed in the beetle Tribolium castaneum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 115. 2018, Issue 8, pp. 1665-1666.
  Ansari, S., Troelenberg, N., Dao, V.A., Richter, T., Bucher, G., Klingler, M.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1716512115)
• Expanded and updated data and a query pipeline for iBeetle-Base. Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 46. 2018, Issue D1, pp. D831–D835.
  Dönitz, J., Gerischer, L., Hahnke, S., Pfeiffer, S., Bucher, G.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx984)
• A protocol for double fluorescent in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry for the study of embryonic brain development in Tribolium castaneum. In: Brain Development - Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 2047. 2019, pp 219-232, Humana, New York, NY.
  Büscher, M., Oberhofer, G., García-Pérez, N.C., Bucher, G.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9732-9_12)
• An ancestral apical brain region contributes to the central complex under the control of foxQ2 in the beetle Tribolium. eLife, Vol. 8. 2019, e39304.
  He, B., Buescher, M., Farnworth, M.S., Strobl, F., Stelzer, E.H., Koniszewski, N.D., Muehlen, D., Bucher, G.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.49065.001)
• Immunohistochemistry and fluorescent whole mount RNA in situ hybridization in larval and adult brains of Tribolium. In: Brain Development - Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 2047. 2019, pp. pp 233-251, Humana, NY.
  Hunnekuhl, V.S., Farnworth, M.S., Bucher, G.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9732-9_13)
• The red flour beetle as model for comparative neural development: Genome editing to mark neural cells in Tribolium brain development. In: Brain Development - Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 2047. 2019, pp 191-217, Humana, New York, NY.
  Farnworth, S.M., Eckermann, K.N., Ahmed, H.M.M., Mühlen, D.S., He, B., Bucher, G.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9732-9_11)
• Enhanced genome assembly and a new official gene set for Tribolium castaneum. BMC Genomics, Vol. 21. 2020, Article number: 47.
  Herndon, N., Shelton*, J., Gerischer, L., Ioannidis, P., Bucher, G. et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-6394-6)
• six3 acts upstream of foxQ2 in labrum and neural development in the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum. Development Genes and Evolution, Vol. 230. 2020, pp. 95–104.
  Schacht, M.I., Schomburg, C., Bucher, G.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00427-020-00654-9)