Suppose you wanted to develop a fate map of blastoderm cells of Drosophila melanogaster. Drosophila is a very well studied genetic model organism, but has, as discussed in class, syncytial(pertaining to) embryos. What approaches could you take, and how might you use genetic methods to determine the fate map?
By cell lineage tracing we can determine the fate map.
In this tequnique we use molecules which acts as a tracer and give us idea about particular protein and its corresponding activity.
Fluorescent peptide tracer is used to trace proteins and gene expression in various organisms.
Chemically caged fluorescent molecules are used like rhodamine dextran.
These molecules migrates from one cell to another cell with the help of gap junctions or other Cell to cell connections.
Other techniques like immunostaining, fluorophore and chemicals are used.
Get Answers For Free
Most questions answered within 1 hours.