The fly eye: Through the looking glass

JP Kumar - Developmental dynamics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The developing eye‐antennal disc of Drosophila melanogaster has been studied for more
than a century, and it has been used as a model system to study diverse processes, such as …

Evolutionary rate covariation is pervasive between glycosylation pathways and points to potential disease modifiers

HJ Thorpe, R Partha, J Little, NL Clark, CY Chow - PLoS genetics, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Mutations in glycosylation pathways, such as N-linked glycosylation, O-linked glycosylation,
and GPI anchor synthesis, lead to Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG). CDG …

A genome-wide CRISPR screen identifies DPM1 as a modifier of DPAGT1 deficiency and ER stress

HM Dalton, R Viswanatha, R Brathwaite Jr… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Partial loss-of-function mutations in glycosylation pathways underlie a set of rare diseases
called Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDGs). In particular, DPAGT1-CDG is caused …

Drosophila Pax6 promotes development of the entire eye-antennal disc, thereby ensuring proper adult head formation

J Zhu, S Palliyil, C Ran… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Paired box 6 (Pax6) is considered to be the master control gene for eye development in all
seeing animals studied so far. In vertebrates, it is required not only for lens/retina formation …

Eyeless/Pax6 initiates eye formation non-autonomously from the peripodial epithelium

LR Baker, BM Weasner, A Nagel, SD Neuman… - …, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
The transcription factor Pax6 is considered the master control gene for eye formation
because (1) it is present within the genomes and retina/lens of all animals with a visual …

A drug repurposing screen reveals dopamine signaling as a critical pathway underlying potential therapeutics for the rare disease DPAGT1-CDG

HM Dalton, NJ Young, AR Berman, HD Evans… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
DPAGT1-CDG is a Congenital Disorder of Glycosylation (CDG) that lacks effective therapies.
It is caused by mutations in the gene DPAGT1 which encodes the first enzyme in N-linked …

The timing of cell fate decisions is crucial for initiating pattern formation in the Drosophila eye

BM Weasner, JP Kumar - Development, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
The eye-antennal disc of Drosophila is composed of three cell layers: a columnar epithelium
called the disc proper (DP); an overlying sheet of squamous cells called the peripodial …

Polycomb group (PcG) proteins and Pax6 cooperate to inhibit in vivo reprogramming of the developing Drosophila eye

J Zhu, AJ Ordway, L Weber, K Buddika… - …, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
How different cells and tissues commit to and determine their fates has been a central
question in developmental biology since the seminal embryological experiments conducted …

A Genetic Screen Using the Drosophila melanogaster TRiP RNAi Collection To Identify Metabolic Enzymes Required for Eye Development

RC Pletcher, SL Hardman, SF Intagliata… - G3: Genes …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The metabolic enzymes that compose glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and other pathways
within central carbon metabolism have emerged as key regulators of animal development …

Dynamic genome wide expression profiling of Drosophila head development reveals a novel role of Hunchback in retinal glia cell development and blood-brain …

M Torres-Oliva, J Schneider, G Wiegleb… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Drosophila melanogaster head development represents a valuable process to study the
developmental control of various organs, such as the antennae, the dorsal ocelli and the …