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Margherita Battistara

🪲🪰 Our preprint is out! This was a team effort with @wolframponisch.bsky.social, @matthewabenton.bsky.social and Ewa Paluch. We asked whether Drosophila and Tribolium use the same cell behaviours to fold their embryos during gastrulation. 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Morphospace analysis reveals divergent cellular behaviours driving tissue internalisation during insect gastrulationDuring gastrulation, embryonic epithelia undergo large-scale remodelling to internalise the mesoderm. Whether the cellular mechanisms underlying these tissue deformations are conserved across species ...www.biorxiv.org
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Agathe Chaigne

Congratulations!!

Margherita Battistara

In the fruit fly, Drosophila, mesoderm internalisation is very coordinated. Mesoderm cells constrict their apical surfaces, and the tissue folds inwards as a tube.

Ответ для Margherita Battistara
Margherita Battistara

In the flour beetle, Tribolium, the tissue-scale outcome looks broadly similar. The mesoderm also internalises and forms a tube-like structure. But when you look closely, the cellular behaviours underlying this process are much less uniform.

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Margherita Battistara

To compare the two systematically, we used morphospace analysis: a way to quantitatively map and compare 3D cell shapes during development. This method was previously applied to quantify cell shape noise ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cell shape noise strength regulates the rate of shape change during EMT-associated cell spreadingCellular shape is intimately linked to cell function and state, and transitions between cell states are tightly coupled to shape changes. Yet, shape has been largely overlooked in state transitions st...www.biorxiv.org
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Margherita Battistara

In Drosophila, cells follow a clear shape trajectory as the tissue folds. In Tribolium… not so much.

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Margherita Battistara

Looking more closely, we found why: the beetle is not only folding its mesoderm. Some cells internalise early by dividing out of the epithelial plane, so that one daughter cell remains near the surface while the other is born directly inside the embryo.

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Margherita Battistara

Why would cells do this? The clue was crowding. As the Tribolium mesoderm constricts apically, the tissue becomes increasingly packed.

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Margherita Battistara

Using live imaging and interpretable machine learning, we found that small apical area and high nuclear crowding predict out-of-plane divisions.

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Margherita Battistara

So the hypothesis is: The tissue is trying to fold as a tube. 🚇 Cells are also dividing. 👩‍👧‍👧 Space becomes limiting. 👥👥👥 And some cells appear to respond by dividing “downwards”, with one daughter cell leaving the epithelial layer and internalising early. ↔️↕️

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Margherita Battistara

To test whether crowding was really driving out-of-plane divisions, we perturbed the two processes that could generate it: apical constriction and cell division. When apical constriction is abolished on the ventral side of the embryo, cells still divided — but all within the epithelial plane.

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Margherita Battistara

We then did the complementary experiment: we blocked cell divisions by knocking down Tc-string. Here, cells still apically constricted, but they no longer divided. And the tissue folded much faster — around 50 minutes earlier.

Max Farnworth

Congrats! This looks super interesting 👀