Evolution of nerve development in frogs. II. Modified development of the peripheral nervous system in the direct-developing frog Eleutherodactylus coqui (Leptodactylidae).
Evolution of nerve development in frogs. II. Modified development of the peripheral nervous system in the direct-developing frog Eleutherodactylus coqui (Leptodactylidae).
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青蛙神经发育的进化。
DOI:
10.1159/000113325
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发表时间:
1997
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Roth,G
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作者:
Schlosser,G;Roth,G
We use whole-mount immunohistochemistry to describe the pattern of development of cranial nerves and muscles in the direct-developing leptodactylid frogEleutherodactylus coqui.Comparison with nerve development in the biphasically developing frogsPhysalaemus pustulosus(Leptodactylidae) andDiscoglossus pictus(Discoglossidae; described in a companion paper) allows us to infer the ancestral leptodactylid ontogenetic pattern and the extent to which it has been modified during the evolution of direct development inEleutherodactylus.While early embryonic development of cranial nerves and muscles is remarkably conserved inE. coqui,most transitory embryonic and larval characters (e.g., occipital and spinal myotomes together with their innervation, the distorted course of trigeminal and facial nerves, ventral branchial arch muscles, a subset of branchial-nerve rami and the lateral-line system never develop. However, a few larva-typical characters are recapitulated, including Rohon-Beard cells and an anastomosis between the vagal and hypoglossal nerve. In addition to the abbreviation of ontogeny by loss of larva-specific traits, dramatic dissociations and heterochronic shifts of character can be observed inE. coqui.The onset of development of limb and trunk innervation has been pre-displaced to early embryonic stages. Moreover, the reorientation of cranial muscles and nerves corresponding to late metamorphic events in biphasically developing anurans occurs relatively much earlier and is less pronounced inE. coquiresulting in an extreme condensation of ontogeny.