Ontogeny of pioneer neurons in the antennal nervous system of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria

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• 作者：George Boyan ; Erica Ehrhardt
• 关键词：Grasshopper ; Embryo ; Antenna ; Pioneer neurons ; Ontogeny
• 刊名：Development Genes and Evolution
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：227
• 期：1
• 页码：11-23
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• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Developmental Biology; Neurosciences; Cell Biology; Biochemistry, general; Animal Genetics and Genomics;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-041X
• 卷排序：227

文摘

The nervous system of the antenna of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria consists of two nerve tracts in which sensory cells project their axons to the brain. Each tract is pioneered early in embryogenesis by a pair of identified cells located apically in the antennal lumen. The pioneers are thought to originate in the epithelium of the antenna and then delaminate into the lumen where they commence axogenesis. However, unambiguous molecular identification of these cells in the epithelium, of an identifiable precursor, and of their mode of generation has been lacking. In this study, we have used immunolabeling against neuron-specific horseradish peroxidase and against Lachesin, a marker for differentiating epithelial cells, in combination with the nuclear stain DAPI, to identify the pioneers within the epithelium of the early embryonic antenna. We then track their delamination into the lumen as differentiated neurons. The pioneers are not labeled by the mesodermal/mesectodermal marker Mes3, consistent with an epithelial (ectodermal) origin. Intracellular dye injection, as well as labeling against the mitosis marker phospho-histone 3, identifies precursor cells in the epithelium, each associated with a column of cells. Culturing with the S-phase label 5-ethynyl-2′-deoxyuridine (EdU) shows that both a precursor and its column have incorporated the label, confirming a lineage relationship. Each set of pioneers can be shown to belong to a separate lineage of such epithelial cells, and the precursors remain and are proliferative after generating the pioneers. Analyses of mitotic spindle orientation then enable us to propose a model in which a precursor generates its pioneers asymmetrically via self-renewal.