The development of Drosophila melanogaster during space flight
Description
In prospective human exploration of outer space the need to maintain a species over several generations under changed gravity conditions may arise. This paper reports the analysis of the third generation of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster obtained during the 44.5-day space flight (Foton-M4 satellite 2014 Russia) followed by the fourth generation on Earth and the fifth generation under conditions of a 12-day space flight (2014 in the Russian Segment of the ISS). The obtained results show that it is possible to obtain the third-fifth generations of a complex multicellular Earth organism under changed gravity conditions (in the cycle weightlessness - Earth - weightlessness) which preserves fertility and normal development. However there were a number of changes in the expression levels and content of cytoskeletal proteins that are the key components of the spindle apparatus and the contractile ring of cells.
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Tags
- nucleic-acid-extraction
- microgravity
- library-construction
- growth-protocol
- nucleic-acid-sequencing
- sequence-analysis-data-transformation