Acanthoscelides obtectus

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i5K Comments for Acanthoscelides obtectus
- easy to keep in laboratory, food available from any supermarket

- short generation time (4 weeks)

- parental RNAi (systemic RNAi) and in situ hybridization have been established for this species in my lab. hunchback RNAi phenotype ressembles that of Drosophila hunchback, not Tribolium hunchback.

- scientific interest (1): long germ embryo, long germ segmentation (6 pair-rule stripes formed synchronously in blastoderm, 2 more form during germ band extension). Interesting as convergent evolution of long germ segmentation, comparison with Tribolium and Drosophila.

- scientific interest (2): legs (thoracic appendages) largely reduced in larva - convergent evolution with dipteran imaginal discs.

- scientific interest (3): a transcriptome project targeting maternal and early embryonic mRNAs has been initiated by Michael Schoppmeier (University of Erlangen) and Ulrike Löhr (MPI Göttingen).

- availability of genetic material: several labs have cultures established, including mine, DNA isolation from eggs, larvae, pupae and adult beetles easy
Martin Klingler


Acanthoscelides obtectus
Acanthoscelides obtectus
Bean beetle


Taxonomic classification
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Acanthoscelides
NCBI taxid: 485px-US-NLM-NCBI-Logo.png 200917
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Information
Nomination: i5K initiative
Date: 2011/05/10


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