PUBLICATION
A transient population of neurons pioneers the olfactory pathway in the zebrafish
- Authors
- Whitlock, K.E. and Westerfield, M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-981208-36
- Date
- 1998
- Source
- The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 18: 8919-8927 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Westerfield, Monte, Whitlock, Kate
- Keywords
- fate map; cell death; olfactory neurons; axon guidance; olfactory receptors; cell lineage
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Cell Lineage
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- In Situ Hybridization
- Neurons, Afferent/cytology*
- Neurons, Afferent/metabolism
- Olfactory Pathways/embryology*
- Olfactory Pathways/metabolism
- Olfactory Receptor Neurons/embryology
- Olfactory Receptor Neurons/metabolism
- Receptors, Odorant/metabolism
- Telencephalon/embryology*
- Telencephalon/metabolism
- Time Factors
- Zebrafish/embryology
- PubMed
- 9786997 Full text @ J. Neurosci.
Citation
Whitlock, K.E. and Westerfield, M. (1998) A transient population of neurons pioneers the olfactory pathway in the zebrafish. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 18:8919-8927.
Abstract
Mechanisms guiding the first axons from the olfactory placode of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) to the olfactory bulb in the vertebrate CNS are unknown. We analyzed the initial outgrowth of axons from the olfactory placode in zebrafish and found a precocious transient class of pioneer neurons that prefigure the primary olfactory pathway before outgrowth of olfactory sensory axons or expression of olfactory receptor genes. Not only are the pioneers antigenically, morphologically, and spatially distinct from olfactory sensory neurons, they are also developmentally distinct; via fate mapping, we show that they arise from a more anterior region of the lateral neural plate than do the first sensory neurons. After the axons of the sensory neurons grow into the CNS, the pioneer neurons undergo apoptotic cell death. When we ablated the pioneers before axonogenesis, the following sensory axons showed severe misrouting. We propose that the pioneers provide the first necessary connection from the PNS to the CNS and that they establish an axonal scaffold for the later-arriving olfactory sensory neurons.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping