PUBLICATION
Molecular regionalization of the developing amphioxus neural tube challenges major partitions of the vertebrate brain
- Authors
- Albuixech-Crespo, B., López-Blanch, L., Burguera, D., Maeso, I., Sánchez-Arrones, L., Moreno-Bravo, J.A., Somorjai, I., Pascual-Anaya, J., Puelles, E., Bovolenta, P., Garcia-Fernàndez, J., Puelles, L., Irimia, M., Ferran, J.L.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-170420-3
- Date
- 2017
- Source
- PLoS Biology 15: e2001573 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Bovolenta, Paola, Maeso, Ignacio, Sánchez-Arrones, Luisa
- Keywords
- Vertebrates, Amphioxus, Central nervous system, Midbrain, Gene expression, Notochords, In situ hybridization, Thalamus
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Body Patterning/genetics
- Brain/embryology*
- Brain/metabolism
- Chick Embryo
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/embryology*
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/metabolism
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Lancelets/embryology*
- Lancelets/metabolism
- Male
- Mice, Knockout
- Models, Biological
- Models, Genetic
- Neural Tube/embryology*
- Neural Tube/metabolism
- Vertebrates/embryology*
- Vertebrates/metabolism
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 28422959 Full text @ PLoS Biol.
Citation
Albuixech-Crespo, B., López-Blanch, L., Burguera, D., Maeso, I., Sánchez-Arrones, L., Moreno-Bravo, J.A., Somorjai, I., Pascual-Anaya, J., Puelles, E., Bovolenta, P., Garcia-Fernàndez, J., Puelles, L., Irimia, M., Ferran, J.L. (2017) Molecular regionalization of the developing amphioxus neural tube challenges major partitions of the vertebrate brain. PLoS Biology. 15:e2001573.
Abstract
All vertebrate brains develop following a common Bauplan defined by anteroposterior (AP) and dorsoventral (DV) subdivisions, characterized by largely conserved differential expression of gene markers. However, it is still unclear how this Bauplan originated during evolution. We studied the relative expression of 48 genes with key roles in vertebrate neural patterning in a representative amphioxus embryonic stage. Unlike nonchordates, amphioxus develops its central nervous system (CNS) from a neural plate that is homologous to that of vertebrates, allowing direct topological comparisons. The resulting genoarchitectonic model revealed that the amphioxus incipient neural tube is unexpectedly complex, consisting of several AP and DV molecular partitions. Strikingly, comparison with vertebrates indicates that the vertebrate thalamus, pretectum, and midbrain domains jointly correspond to a single amphioxus region, which we termed Di-Mesencephalic primordium (DiMes). This suggests that these domains have a common developmental and evolutionary origin, as supported by functional experiments manipulating secondary organizers in zebrafish and mice.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping