Multinucleated smooth muscles and mononucleated as well as multinucleated striated muscles develop during establishment of the male reproductive organs of Drosophila melanogaster
pmid: 22841645
Multinucleated smooth muscles and mononucleated as well as multinucleated striated muscles develop during establishment of the male reproductive organs of Drosophila melanogaster
The adult musculature in D. melanogaster forms during metamorphosis. Much is known about the flight and leg musculature, but not about the muscles surrounding the male reproductive tract. The inner genitalia of males consist of the testes, which emerge from the gonads; the remaining genital organs, i.e., paragonia (or accessory glands), ejaculatory duct, sperm pump, and seminal vesicles, develop out of the genital imaginal disc. We analyzed the myoblasts forming the muscle layers of these organs. In myoblasts derived from the genital imaginal disc, the regulatory region of the transcription factor DMef2 is active. DMef2 is also needed for specification and differentiation of embryonic and adult myoblasts. We could discriminate three different muscle types: (i) multinucleated muscles that resemble vertebrate smooth muscles surround the testes, (ii) multinucleated muscles that resemble striated muscles comprises seminal vesicles and the sperm pump, and (iii) mononucleated striated musculature encloses the paragonia and ejaculatory duct. Members of the immunoglobulin superfamily involved in embryonic myogenesis, Dumbfounded (Duf) and Sticks and Stones (Sns), were also expressed in the genital imaginal disc, in the muscle sheath of the testes during muscle differentiation and in the secretory secondary cells, which are part of the binucleated epithelia enclosing the paragonia.
- University of Münster Germany
- Philipps-University of Marburg Germany
Male, Organogenesis, Duf, Immunoglobulins, Muscle Proteins, Sns, Genitalia, Male, Muscle Development, DMef2, Myoblasts, Animals, Drosophila Proteins, Testes, Molecular Biology, Metamorphosis, Biological, Myogenesis, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, Membrane Proteins, Cell Differentiation, Muscle, Smooth, Cell Biology, Immunohistochemistry, Muscle, Striated, Drosophila melanogaster, Microscopy, Electron, Scanning, Developmental Biology
Male, Organogenesis, Duf, Immunoglobulins, Muscle Proteins, Sns, Genitalia, Male, Muscle Development, DMef2, Myoblasts, Animals, Drosophila Proteins, Testes, Molecular Biology, Metamorphosis, Biological, Myogenesis, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, Membrane Proteins, Cell Differentiation, Muscle, Smooth, Cell Biology, Immunohistochemistry, Muscle, Striated, Drosophila melanogaster, Microscopy, Electron, Scanning, Developmental Biology
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