The great capability of insects to adapt to new environments promoted their extraordinary diversification, resulting in the group of Metazoa with the largest number of species distributed worldwide. To understand this enormous diversity, it is essential to investigate lineages that would allow the reconstruction of the early events in the evolution of insects. However, research on insect ecology, physiology, development and evolution has mostly focused on few well-established model species. The key phylogenetic position of mayflies within Paleoptera as the sister group of the rest of winged insects and life history traits of mayflies make them an essential order to understand insect evolution. Here, we describe the establishment of a continuous culture system of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum and a series of experimental protocols and omics resources that allow the study of its development and its great regenerative capability. Thus, the establishment of Cloeon as an experimental platform paves the way to understand genomic and morphogenetic events that occurred at the origin of winged insects.

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建立了fly科克氏dip作为研究昆虫进化的新模型系统。

昆虫适应新环境的强大能力促进了其非同寻常的多样化，从而使后生动物群成为全球分布数量最多的物种。要了解这种巨大的多样性，必须研究可以重建昆虫进化早期事件的世系。但是，昆虫生态学，生理学，发育和进化的研究主要集中在很少建立的模型物种上。作为其他有翅昆虫的姊妹群，五翅目在五翅目中的关键系统发生位置以及五翅果的生活史特征使其成为了解昆虫进化的重要顺序。这里，我们描述了建立may连续克隆培养系统的系统，以及一系列实验方案和组学资源，以研究其发展及其强大的再生能力。因此，将Cloeon作为实验平台的建立为理解在有翅昆虫起源处发生的基因组和形态发生事件铺平了道路。