PUBLICATION

A dual embryonic origin for vertebrate mechanoreceptors

Authors
Collazo, A., Fraser, S.E., and Mabee, P.M.
ID
ZDB-PUB-961014-178
Date
1994
Source
Science (New York, N.Y.)   264: 426-430 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Collazo, Andres, Fraser, Scott E., Mabee, Paula M.
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Cell Differentiation
  • Cell Movement
  • Central Nervous System/embryology
  • Embryo, Nonmammalian/cytology
  • Epidermis/cytology
  • Epidermis/embryology*
  • Fishes/embryology*
  • Fluorescent Dyes
  • Mechanoreceptors/embryology*
  • Neural Crest/cytology
  • Neural Crest/embryology*
  • Peripheral Nervous System/embryology
  • Xenopus/embryology*
  • Zebrafish/embryology
PubMed
8153631 Full text @ Science
Abstract
Neuromasts, the mechanoreceptors of the lateral line system of fishes and aquatic amphibians, have previously been thought to develop exclusively from embryonic epidermal placodes. Use of fate mapping techniques shows that neuromasts of the head and body of zebrafish, Siamese fighting fish, and Xenopus are also derived from neural crest. Neural crest migrates away from the neural tube in developing vertebrates to form much of the peripheral nervous system, pigment cells, and skeletal elements of the head. The data presented here demonstrate that neuromasts are derived from both neural crest and epidermal placodes.
Genes / Markers
Figures
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping