Leech segmentation: cell lineage and the formation of complex body patterns.
Leech segmentation: cell lineage and the formation of complex body patterns.
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水蛭分割:细胞谱系和复杂身体模式的形成。
DOI:
10.1016/0012-1606(91)90416-z
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发表时间:
1991
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Shankland,M
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作者:
Shankland,M
Early in embryogenesis, the anteroposterior(AP) axis of segmented animals develops a structural periodicity which organizes subsequent patterns of cell differentiation. In the fruitfly Drosophila, genetic studies have provided many profound insights into the developmental origin of segmental periodicity and the regional specification of differences between segments (for review, see Akam, 1987). However, body segmentation is a characteristic of three animal phyla-the arthropods, annelids, and certain chordates-and the phylogenetic origin (s) of the segmentation process remain a mystery. There are both tantalizing similarities (Lumsden, 1990; Wilkinson and Krumlauf, 1990) and striking differences (Pate1 et aL, 1989) in the way that phyletically diverse organisms generate their segmental organization. This review describes the segmentation of the leech, an annelid worm, and places emphasis on the distinctive manner in which the leech embryo generates its segmental periodicity when compared to either insect or vertebrate embryos. The leech develops from egg to adult by means of an essentially invariant cell lineage (Stent et al., 1982), and offers an opportunity to study segmental patterning within a precisely defined framework of cellular events. In addition, leeches have large embryos which have proven very amenable to a variety of experimental techniques such as the intracellular injection of vital cell lineage tracers (Weisblat et aZ., 1978; Gimlich and Braun, 1985), selective cell ablation (Blair, 1982; Glover and Kramer, 1982; Shankland, 1984), and the transplantation within or between embryos of segmental founder cells (Shankland, 1984) and differentiating organs (Loer and Kristan, 1989a). These cellular studies have also been complemented by the isolation and incipient molecular analysis of leech genes which are homologous to several of the regulatory genes that play pivotal roles in Drosophda segmentation(Wysocka-Diller et aZ., 1989; Wedeen et aL, 1990, 1991; Shankland et aL, in press).