Clonal analysis of Drosophila antennal lobe neurons: diverse neuronal architectures in the lateral neuroblast lineage
Student Authors
Sen-Lin LaiAcademic Program
NeuroscienceUMass Chan Affiliations
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience ProgramLee Lab
Neurobiology
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Journal ArticlePublication Date
2008-09-01Keywords
Animal Structures; Animals; Axons; *Cell Lineage; Clone Cells; Drosophila melanogaster; Enhancer Elements, Genetic; Mosaicism; NeuronsNeuroscience and Neurobiology
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The antennal lobe (AL) is the primary structure in the Drosophila brain that relays odor information from the antennae to higher brain centers. The characterization of uniglomerular projection neurons (PNs) and some local interneurons has facilitated our understanding of olfaction; however, many other AL neurons remain unidentified. Because neuron types are mostly specified by lineage and temporal origins, we use the MARCM techniques with a set of enhancer-trap GAL4 lines to perform systematical lineage analysis to characterize neuron morphologies, lineage origin and birth timing in the three AL neuron lineages that contain GAL4-GH146-positive PNs: anterodorsal, lateral and ventral lineages. The results show that the anterodorsal lineage is composed of pure uniglomerular PNs that project through the inner antennocerebral tract. The ventral lineage produces uniglomerular and multiglomerular PNs that project through the middle antennocerebral tract. The lateral lineage generates multiple types of neurons, including uniglomeurlar PNs, diverse atypical PNs, various types of AL local interneurons and the neurons that make no connection within the ALs. Specific neuron types in all three lineages are produced in specific time windows, although multiple neuron types in the lateral lineage are made simultaneously. These systematic cell lineage analyses have not only filled gaps in the olfactory map, but have also exemplified additional strategies used in the brain to increase neuronal diversity.Source
Development. 2008 Sep;135(17):2883-93. Epub 2008 Jul 24. Link to article on publisher's siteDOI
10.1242/dev.024380Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/33000PubMed ID
18653555Related Resources
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10.1242/dev.024380