Matthias Teuscher

The paper expands an RNAi screen in Tribolium castaneum to assess gene function diversity between beetles and flies, finding that 50% of functions are shared while others are specific to one species.

The paper reports a large-scale RNAi screen in Tribolium castaneum identifying novel genes involved in insect muscle development, with results showing both shared and distinct genes compared to Drosophila.

The paper identifies an ancestral developmental module involving micropeptides and transcription factors that regulates insect embryonic patterning, showing functional plasticity despite evolutionary divergence.