Formation and patterning of the larva appears to require a suite of conserved developmental transcription factors and signaling pathways [ 10- 12].
In addition, the CIN gene catalog identified a suite of conserved CIN genes that are poorly characterized (Ben-Aroya et al. 2008; Stirling et al. 2011).
Although vocal networks in several vertebrate lineages achieve high degrees of synchrony and precision (e.g., [ 7- 10]), it is unknown whether these properties depend on a suite of conserved genetic/molecular mechanisms.
These evolutionary features, combined with the presence of an expanded suite of conserved meiotic recombination genes, are compelling indicators of sexual reproduction in many eukaryotes (Malik et al. 2008; Schurko et al. 2009).
In Oncopeltus, we have shown that none of the transcripts of an extensive suite of conserved germ cell markers localise asymmetrically within oocytes or in early embryos (Figs 1, 2, 4; supplementary material Fig. S3), including transcripts of genes that localise to and are required for the function of germ plasm in Drosophila.
Organisms exposed to environmental stressors respond by rapidly synthesising a suite of highly conserved proteins called heat shock proteins (HSPs).
While we suggest here that aspects of head/anterior brain patterning are generally conserved, we show that another suite of genes involved in retinal determination is absent from the ectoderm of these echinoderms and instead operates within the mesoderm.
Organisms exposed to different environmental stressors, including temperature changes, trace metals and ultraviolet light, respond by rapidly synthesising a suite of highly conserved proteins called heat shock or stress proteins.
These were based on the multiple sequence alignment of the 56 putative BcWRKY proteins, ranging in size from 176 to 1,064 aa, using ClustalW in MEGA 5 software (using the ML method and a bootstrap value of 1000) and the MEME suite to detect conserved motifs in the BcWRKY protein sequences.
