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A blastoderm fate map has been prepared for Drosophila, using mosaics of a temperature-sensitive mutation, shibire (shi). The mutation can cause abnormal flight muscle morphology, inducible only by a short heat pulse in early metamorphosis. Thus muscle lineage and development are unperturbed until the heat pulse in the early pupa. The developmental focus of the shi muscle phenotype maps to the ventral thorax at the expected site of thoracic mesoderm, and probably indicates the blastoderm progenitors of the adult flight muscle. The fate map provides greater detail than previously available for the dorsolongitudinal fibers (DLM) of flight muscle, showing wide separation of the fibers of flight muscle. DLM fibers a and b map close together, and far anterior to fibers e and f, which also map together. On a fate map, common developmental focus indicates a common blastoderm origin. Thus, the observed pattern for DLM fibers suggests that the blastoderm progenitors for each of these syncytial fiber pairs (a, b; e, f) include only one or two cells. It follows that there is usually a single genotype within each fiber pair (a, b; e, f), and that this genotype is directly reflected in the fiber phenotype. In a large number of cases, DLM fibers a and b differ in phenotype from other DLM fibers, in parallel with their other differences (e.g., timing of development in pupa, innervation, motor activity). The separation of fate map locations of the developmental focus for DLM fibers within mesoderm suggests that specific fibers of flight muscle may, in normal development, originate in all three thoracic mesodermal parasegments.
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Hummon, M.R., Costello, W.J. Cell lineage of flight muscle fibers in Drosophila: a fate map of the induced shibire phenotype in mosaics. Roux's Arch Dev Biol 201, 88–94 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00420419
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