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ArticleScientific reports2017

Genetic targeting and anatomical registration of neuronal populations in the zebrafish brain with a new set of BAC transgenic tools.

Dominique Förster, Irene Arnold-Ammer, Eva Laurell, Alison J Barker, António M Fernandes, Karin Finger-Baier, Alessandro Filosa, Thomas O Helmbrecht, Yvonne Kölsch, Enrico Kühn and 5 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Dominique FörsterMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department Genes - Circuits - Behavior, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152, Martinsried, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7821-6755
Irene Arnold-AmmerMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department Genes - Circuits - Behavior, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152, Martinsried, Germany.
Eva LaurellMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department Genes - Circuits - Behavior, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152, Martinsried, Germany.
Alison J BarkerMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department Genes - Circuits - Behavior, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152, Martinsried, Germany.
António M FernandesMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department Genes - Circuits - Behavior, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152, Martinsried, Germany.
Karin Finger-BaierMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department Genes - Circuits - Behavior, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152, Martinsried, Germany.
Alessandro FilosaMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department Genes - Circuits - Behavior, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152, Martinsried, Germany.
Thomas O HelmbrechtMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department Genes - Circuits - Behavior, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152, Martinsried, Germany.
Yvonne KölschMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department Genes - Circuits - Behavior, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152, Martinsried, Germany.
Enrico KühnMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department Genes - Circuits - Behavior, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152, Martinsried, Germany.
Estuardo RoblesMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department Genes - Circuits - Behavior, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152, Martinsried, Germany.
Krasimir SlanchevMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department Genes - Circuits - Behavior, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152, Martinsried, Germany.
Tod R ThieleMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department Genes - Circuits - Behavior, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152, Martinsried, Germany.
Herwig BaierMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department Genes - Circuits - Behavior, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152, Martinsried, Germany. hbaier@neuro.mpg.de.
Fumi KuboMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department Genes - Circuits - Behavior, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152, Martinsried, Germany. fumikubo@neuro.mpg.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genetic access to small, reproducible sets of neurons is key to an understanding of the functional wiring of the brain. Here we report the generation of a new Gal4- and Cre-driver resource for zebrafish neurobiology. Candidate genes, including cell type-specific transcription factors, neurotransmitter-synthesizing enzymes and neuropeptides, were selected according to their expression patterns in small and unique subsets of neurons from diverse brain regions. BAC recombineering, followed by Tol2 transgenesis, was used to generate driver lines that label neuronal populations in patterns that, to a large but variable extent, recapitulate the endogenous gene expression. We used image registration to characterize, compare, and digitally superimpose the labeling patterns from our newly generated transgenic lines. This analysis revealed highly restricted and mutually exclusive tissue distributions, with striking resolution of layered brain regions such as the tectum or the rhombencephalon. We further show that a combination of Gal4 and Cre transgenes allows intersectional expression of a fluorescent reporter in regions where the expression of the two drivers overlaps. Taken together, our study offers new tools for functional studies of specific neural circuits in zebrafish.

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Chromosomes, Artificial, BacterialGene TargetingTransgenesAnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedBrainGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGenes, ReporterNeuronsZebrafishZebrafish ProteinsZebrafish Proteins

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PMID28701772
PMCPMC5507991

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