Unravelling the evolution of neural stem cells in arthropods: Notch signalling in neural stem cell development in the crustacean Daphnia magna
| Autor: | Bo Joakim Eriksson, Angelika Stollewerk, Petra Ungerer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Nonmammalian animal structures Neurogenesis Molecular Sequence Data Notch signaling pathway Cell fate determination Evolution Molecular 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Neural Stem Cells Neuroblast Animals Molecular Biology 030304 developmental biology 0303 health sciences Receptors Notch Neuroectoderm biology fungi Gene Expression Regulation Developmental Anatomy Cell Biology Tetraconata Co-option biology.organism_classification Neural stem cell Neuroblast differentiation Daphnia Evolutionary biology Notch signalling Arthropod 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Signal Transduction Developmental Biology |
| Zdroj: | Developmental Biology. 371(2):302-311 |
| ISSN: | 0012-1606 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ydbio.2012.08.025 |
| Popis: | The genetic regulatory networks controlling major developmental processes seem to be conserved in bilaterians regardless of an independent or a common origin of the structures. This has been explained by the employment of a genetic toolkit that was repeatedly used during bilaterian evolution to build the various forms and body plans. However, it is not clear how genetic networks were incorporated into the formation of novel structures and how homologous genes can regulate the disparate morphological processes. Here we address this question by analysing the role of Notch signalling, which is part of the bilaterian toolkit, in neural stem cell evolution in arthropods. Within arthropods neural stem cells have evolved in the last common ancestor of insects and crustaceans (Tetraconata). We analyse here for the first time the role of Notch signalling in a crustacean, the branchiopod Daphnia magna, and show that it is required in neural stem cells for regulating the time of neural precursor production and for binary cell fate decisions in the ventral neuroectoderm. The function of Notch signalling has diverged in the ventral neuroectoderm of insects and crustaceans accompanied by changes in the morphogenetic processes. In the crustacean, Notch controlled mechanisms of neuroblast regulation have evolved that are surprisingly similar to vertebrates and thus present a remarkable case of parallel evolution. These new data on a representative of crustaceans complete the arthropod data set on Notch signalling in the nervous system and allow for reconstructing how the Notch signalling pathway has been co-opted from pre-existing structures to the development of the evolving neural stem cells in the Tetraconata ancestor. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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