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Developmental architecture of the nervous system in Themiste lageniformis (Sipuncula): New evidence from confocal laser scanning microscopy and gene expression.

Abstract：

:Sipuncula is a clade of unsegmented marine worms that are currently placed among the basal radiation of conspicuously segmented Annelida. Their new location provides a unique opportunity to reinvestigate the evolution and development of segmented body plans. Neural segmentation is clearly evident during ganglionic ventral nerve cord (VNC) formation across Sedentaria and Errantia, which includes the majority of annelids. However, recent studies show that some annelid taxa outside of Sedentaria and Errantia have a medullary cord, without ganglia, as adults. Importantly, neural development in these taxa is understudied and interpretation can vary widely. For example, reports in sipunculans range from no evidence of segmentation to vestigial segmentation as inferred from a few pairs of serially repeated neuronal cell bodies along the VNC. We investigated patterns of pan-neuronal, neuronal subtype, and axonal markers using immunohistochemistry and whole mount in situ hybridization (WMISH) during neural development in an indirect-developing sipunculan, Themiste lageniformis. Confocal imaging revealed two clusters of 5HT+ neurons, two pairs of FMRF+ neurons, and Tubulin+ peripheral neurites that appear to be serially positioned along the VNC, similar to other sipunculans, to other annelids, and to spiralian taxa outside of Annelida. WMISH of a synaptotagmin1 ortholog in T. lageniformis (Tl-syt1) showed expression throughout the centralized nervous system (CNS), including the VNC where it appears to correlate with mature 5HT+ and FMRF+ neurons. An ortholog of elav1 (Tl-elav1) showed expression in differentiated neurons of the CNS with continuous expression in the VNC, supporting evidence of a medullary cord, and refuting evidence of ontogenetic segmentation during formation of the nervous system. Thus, we conclude that sipunculans do not exhibit any signs of morphological segmentation during development.

journal_name

J Morphol

journal_title

Journal of morphology

authors

Carrillo-Baltodano AM,Boyle MJ,Rice ME,Meyer NP

doi

10.1002/jmor.21054

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-11-01 00:00:00

pages

1628-1650

issue

eissn

0362-2525

issn

1097-4687

journal_volume

280

pub_type

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Developmental architecture of the nervous system in Themiste lageniformis (Sipuncula): New evidence from confocal laser scanning microscopy and gene expression.