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ArticleDevelopment genes and evolution2018

Ontogeny and development of the tritocerebral commissure giant (TCG): an identified neuron in the brain of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria.

George Stephen Boyan, Leslie Williams, Tobias Müller, Jonathan P Bacon

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Article in Development genes and evolution, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

George Stephen BoyanGraduate School of Systemic Neuroscience, Biocenter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Grosshadernerstrasse 2, Planegg-Martinsried, 82152, Germany. george.boyan@lmu.de.
Leslie WilliamsGraduate School of Systemic Neuroscience, Biocenter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Grosshadernerstrasse 2, Planegg-Martinsried, 82152, Germany.
Tobias MüllerFaculty of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78457, Constance, Germany.
Jonathan P BaconSchool of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DEUniversity of Sussex · GB

Funding

Agricultural Research Council 313 - ARC - VII 93 / 50Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft BO 1434/3-5
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The tritocerebral commissure giant (TCG) of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria is one of the best anatomically and physiologically described arthropod brain neurons. A member of the so-called Ventral Giant cluster of cells, it integrates sensory information from visual, antennal and hair receptors, and synapses with thoracic motor neurons in order to initiate and regulate flight behavior. Its ontogeny, however, remains unclear. In this study, we use bromodeoxyuridine incorporation and cyclin labeling to reveal proliferative neuroblasts in the region of the embryonic brain where the ventral giant cluster is located. Engrailed labeling confirms the deutocerebral identity of this cluster. Comparison of soma locations and initial neurite projections into tracts of the striate deutocerebrum help identify the cells of the ventral cluster in both the embryonic and adult brain. Reconstructions of embryonic cell lineages suggest deutocerebral NB1 as being the putative neuroblast of origin. Intracellular dye injection coupled with immunolabeling against neuron-specific horseradish peroxidase is used to identify the VG1 (TCG) and VG3 neurons from the ventral cluster in embryonic brain slices. Dye injection and backfilling are used to document axogenesis and the progressive expansion of the dendritic arbor of the TCG from mid-embryogenesis up to hatching. Comparative maps of embryonic neuroblasts from several orthopteroid insects suggest equivalent deutocerebral neuroblasts from which the homologous TCG neurons already identified in the adult brain could originate. Our data offer the prospect of identifying further lineage-related neurons from the cluster and so understand a brain connectome from both a developmental and evolutionary perspective.

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AnimalsBrainEmbryo, NonmammalianGrasshoppersNeuronsBrainDevelopmentIdentified neuronInsectLineageNeuroblast

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