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  • Title: Budhead, a fork head/HNF-3 homologue, is expressed during axis formation and head specification in hydra.
    Author: Martinez DE, Dirksen ML, Bode PM, Jamrich M, Steele RE, Bode HR.
    Journal: Dev Biol; 1997 Dec 15; 192(2):523-36. PubMed ID: 9441686.
    Abstract:
    Accumulating evidence indicates that a common set of genes and mechanisms regulates the developmental processes of a variety of triploblastic organisms despite large variation in their body plans. To what extent these same genes and mechanisms are also conserved among diploblasts, which arose earlier in metazoan evolution, is unclear. We have characterized a hydra homologue of the fork head/HNF-3 class of winged-helix proteins, termed budhead, whose expression patterns suggest a role(s) similar to that found in vertebrates. The vertebrate HNF-3 beta homologues are expressed early in embryogenesis in regions that have organizer properties, and later they have several roles, among them an important role in rostral head formation. In the adult hydra, where axial patterning processes are continuously active, budhead is expressed in the upper part of the head, which has organizer properties. It is also expressed during the formation of a new axis as part of the development of a bud, hydra's asexual form of reproduction. Expression during later stages of budding, during head regeneration and the formation of ectopic heads, indicates a role in head formation. It is likely that budhead plays a critical role in head as well as axis formation in hydra.
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