RRC ID 21543
著者 Shimada A, Kawanishi T, Kaneko T, Yoshihara H, Yano T, Inohaya K, Kinoshita M, Kamei Y, Tamura K, Takeda H.
タイトル Trunk exoskeleton in teleosts is mesodermal in origin.
ジャーナル Nat Commun
Abstract The vertebrate mineralized skeleton is known to have first emerged as an exoskeleton that extensively covered the fossil jawless fish. The evolutionary origin of this exoskeleton has long been attributed to the emergence of the neural crest, but experimental evaluation for this is still poor. Here we determine the embryonic origin of scales and fin rays of medaka (teleost trunk exoskeletons) by applying long-term cell labelling methods, and demonstrate that both tissues are mesodermal in origin. Neural crest cells, however, fail to contribute to these tissues. This result suggests that the trunk neural crest has no skeletogenic capability in fish, instead highlighting the dominant role of the mesoderm in the evolution of the trunk skeleton. This further implies that the role of the neural crest in skeletogenesis has been predominant in the cephalic region from the early stage of vertebrate evolution.
巻・号 4
ページ 1639
公開日 2013-1-1
DOI 10.1038/ncomms2643
PII ncomms2643
PMID 23535660
PMC PMC3615485
MeSH Animals Mesoderm / anatomy & histology* Oryzias / anatomy & histology* Skeleton*
IF 12.121
引用数 51
WOS 分野 DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
リソース情報
メダカ TG918 hse-cre:mCherry(1) TG891 d-rR-TG(beta-actin-loxP-non-loxP-GFP)