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Analysis of heterochromatic epigenetic markers in the holocentric chromosomes of the aphid Acyrthosiphon pisumMauro Mandrioli
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 D, 41100 Modena, Italy
Chromosome Res 15:1015-22. 2007..Finally, the absence of DNA methylation is observed also in aphid rDNA genes that have been repeatedly described as mosaic of methylated and unmethylated units in vertebrates...
A new synthesis in epigenetics: towards a unified function of DNA methylation from invertebrates to vertebratesM Mandrioli
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 D, 41100, Modena, Italy
Cell Mol Life Sci 64:2522-4. 2007....
Continuous occurrence of intra-individual chromosome rearrangements in the peach potato aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Hemiptera: Aphididae)Valentina Monti
Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 D, 41125 Modena, Italy
Genetica 140:93-103. 2012..persicae clones 50, 51 and 70 are obligately parthenogenetic, arguing that the reproduction by apomictic parthenogenesis favoured the stabilization and inheritance of the observed chromosomal fragments...
Identification and chromosomal localization of mariner-like elements in the cabbage moth Mamestra brassicae (Lepidoptera)Mauro Mandrioli
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita di Modena, Campi 213 D, 41100 Modena, Italy
Chromosome Res 11:319-22. 2003..This observation is unique since generally both mariner coding region and ITRs are evolutionarily conserved in insects. Mbmar is detectable by FISH only in the heterochromatic regions of both the sex chromosomes...
Cytogenetic and molecular characterization of the MBSAT1 satellite DNA in holokinetic chromosomes of the cabbage moth, Mamestra brassicae (Lepidoptera)Mauro Mandrioli
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 D, 41100 Modena, Italy
Chromosome Res 11:51-6. 2003..MBSAT1 was 234 bp long with an AT content of 60.7%. The curvature-propensity plot suggested a curvature in the MBSAT1 structure...
Amiloride-sensitive epithelial sodium channel subunits are expressed in human and mussel immunocytesEnzo Ottaviani
Department of Animal Biology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 41100 Modena, Italy
Dev Comp Immunol 26:395-402. 2002..The observed differential expression patterns of ENaC subunits suggest that ENaC function may be regulated differentially in different types of human lymphocytes...
The genome of the lepidopteran Mamestra brassicae has a vertebrate-like content of methyl-cytosineMauro Mandrioli
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 D, 41100 Modena, Italy
Genetica 119:187-91. 2003..Comparison of the restriction pattern of MspI and HpaII after hybridisation with the hobo, mariner, 28S and 5S rDNA probes did not evidence any difference indicating the absence of CpG methylation in all the studied repeated DNAs...
Stable transformation of a Mamestra brassicae (lepidoptera) cell line with the lepidopteran-derived transposon piggyBacMauro Mandrioli
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 D, 41100, Modena, Italy
Insect Biochem Mol Biol 33:1-5. 2003..The present results are particularly important as they suggest that piggyBac can be used for transgenesis of cabbage moth cells...
Endoreplication: a molecular trick during animal neuron evolutionMauro Mandrioli
Department of Biology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 41100 Modena, Italy
Q Rev Biol 85:159-69. 2010..As a whole, endoreplication seems to be a sort of molecular trick used by neurons in response to the high functional demands that they experience during evolution...
Silver staining as a new banding technique to identify aphid chromosomesG C Manicardi
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita di Modena, Italy
Chromosome Res 6:55-7. 1998..Heterochromatic areas are confined exclusively to the X chromosomes. Interestingly, silver staining produces a clear-cut longitudinal differentiation of all chromosomes, which allows reliable identification of homologues...
Epigenetic tinkering and evolution: is there any continuity in the role of cytosine methylation from invertebrates to vertebrates?M Mandrioli
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 D, 41100, Modena, Italy
Cell Mol Life Sci 61:2425-7. 2004..Cytosine methylation, therefore, proves to be an epigenetic tool repeatedly used to accomplish different functions in different taxa according to a sort of epigenetic tinkering occurring during evolution...
Molecular and cytogenetic analysis of the goby Gobius niger (Teleostei, Gobiidae)M Mandrioli
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Genetica 110:73-8. 2000....
Chromosome analysis and molecular characterization of highly repeated DNAs in the aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum (Aphididae, Hemiptera)D Bizzaro
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Genetica 108:197-202. 2000..FISH experiments with the telomeric probe (TTAGG)n revealed bright hybridization signals on each telomere of all Acyrthosiphon pisum chromosomes. No interstitial signals were seen...
Chromosomal analysis of repeated DNAs in the rainbow wrasse Coris julis (Pisces, Labridae)M Mandrioli
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Genetica 108:191-5. 2000..julis. Finally, regardless of the technique used, no difference in the chromosome complement was found between males and females...
Cytogenetic and molecular analysis of the pufferfish Tetraodon fluviatilis (Osteichthyes)M Mandrioli
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Genetica 111:433-8. 2001..Finally, mariner-like elements (MLEs) have been identified in T. fluviatilis and they have located into the NOR-associated heterochromatin...
Cytogenetic characterization of telomeres in the holocentric chromosomes of the lepidopteran Mamestra brassicaeM Mandrioli
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 D, 41100 Modena, Italy
Chromosome Res 10:279-86. 2002..TRAS1 appeared to be transcriptionally active and non-methylated, as evaluated by RT-PCR and digestion with MspI and HpaII. Finally, dot-blotting experiments showed that the 2.8 +/- 0.5% of the M. brassicae genome consists of TRAS1...
Cytogenetic analysis of the pufferfish Tetraodon fluviatilis (Osteichthyes)M Mandrioli
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Chromosome Res 8:237-42. 2000..Finally, regardless of the technique used, no difference in the chromosome complement was found between males and females...
Presence of a functional (TTAGG)(n) telomere-telomerase system in aphidsValentina Monti
Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 D, 41125 Modena, Italy
Chromosome Res 19:625-33. 2011..persicae strain with a variable chromosome number showed that aphid telomerase can initiate the de novo synthesis of telomere sequences at internal breakpoints, resulting in the stabilization of chromosomal fragments...
Distribution and molecular composition of heterochromatin in the holocentric chromosomes of the aphid Rhopalosiphum padi (Hemiptera: Aphididae)Valentina Monti
Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 D, 41125 Modena, Italy
Genetica 138:1077-84. 2010..padi genome put in evidence a DraI satellite DNA which has been isolated, cloned and sequenced. FISH experiments showed that this satellite DNA clusters in an intercalary C-positive band on the two X chromosomes...
ProCRH in the teleost Ameiurus nebulosus: gene cloning and role in LPS-induced stress responseDavide Malagoli
Department of Animal Biology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Brain Behav Immun 18:451-7. 2004..However, an independent response in the peripheral organs cannot be excluded in this scenario...
Molecular characterization of a defensin in the IZD-MB-0503 cell line derived from immunocytes of the insect Mamestra brassicae (Lepidoptera)Mauro Mandrioli
Department of Animal Biology, Via Campi 213/D, 41100 Modena, Italy
Biol Cell 95:53-7. 2003..This molecule shows between 43% and 59% homology with group A defensins from other dipteran and hymenopteran species...
rDNA (18S-28S and 5S) colocalization and linkage between ribosomal genes and (TTAGGG)(n) telomeric sequence in the earthworm, Octodrilus complanatus (Annelida: Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae), revealed by single- and double-color FISHR Vitturi
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
J Hered 93:279-82. 2002..Simultaneous (18S-26S)-5S and (18S-26S)-(TTAGGG)(n) FISH demonstrated that repeated units of the two ribosomal families were overlapped and closely associated with telomeric sequences...
18S-28S rDNA is interspersed throughout heterochromatin in the millipede Enologus oxypygum (Diplopoda)R Vitturi
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita di Palermo, Italy
Genetica 110:151-5. 2000..Our results indicate that RNA genes are throughout heterochromatin in eight chromosomes involving 1/4 of the total heterochromatin which, in this species, is about 67% of the total DNA. Ag-NOR and FISH patterns were not coincident...
Unlocking holocentric chromosomes: new perspectives from comparative and functional genomics?Mauro Mandrioli
Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 D, Modena, Italy
Curr Genomics 13:343-9. 2012....
Identification of a new hobo element in the cabbage moth, Mamestra brassicae (Lepidoptera)Federica Borsatti
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, , Modena, Italy
Hereditas 139:151-5. 2003..melanogaster HFL1 hobo transposase. FISH experiments evidenced Mbhobo clusters located in heterochromatic regions of Z and W sex chromosomes and in heterochromatic areas of chromosome pair 10...
Analysis of insect holocentric chromosomes by atomic force microscopyMauro Mandrioli
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita di Modena, Modena, Italy
Hereditas 138:129-32. 2003....
DNA methylation of fly genes and transposonsM Mandrioli
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 D, 41100 Modena, Italy
Cell Mol Life Sci 63:1933-6. 2006..The aim of the present paper is to discuss some features that emerge from the analysis of the identified methylated sequences...
Cloning and characterisation of a procorticotrophin-releasing hormone in the IZD-MB-0503 immunocyte line from the insect Mamestra brassicaeDavide Malagoli
Department of Animal Biology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi, 213/D-41100 Modena, Italy
Peptides 23:1829-36. 2002..There was a 61% identity with the corresponding coding sequence in Tilapia mossambica, and a 65.2% identity with the human proCRH coding sequence...
