millepattes micropeptides are an ancient developmental switch required for embryonic patterning
Suparna Ray, Miriam I Rosenberg, Hélène Chanut-Delalande, Amélie Decaras, Barbara Schwertner, William Toubiana, Tzach Auman, Irene Schnellhammer, Matthias Teuscher, Abderrahman Khila, Martin Klingler, François Payre
The paper identifies an ancestral developmental module involving micropeptides and transcription factors that regulates insect embryonic patterning, showing functional plasticity despite evolutionary divergence.
bioRxiv · Sep 3, 2018 · PreprintDevelopmental Biology