2017-04-07
Evolution of the hypoxia-sensitive cells involved in amniote respiratory reflexes
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eLife , Volume 6
The evolutionary origins of the hypoxia-sensitive cells that trigger amniote respiratory reflexes – carotid body glomus cells, and ‘pulmonary neuroendocrine cells’ (PNECs) -are obscure. Homology has been proposed between glomus cells, which are neural crest-derived, and the hypoxia-sensitive ‘neuroepithelial cells’ (NECs) of fish gills, whose embryonic origin is unknown. NECs have also been likened to PNECs, which differentiate in situ within lung airway epithelia. Using genetic lineage-tracing and neural crest-deficient mutants in zebrafish, and physical fate-mapping in frog and lamprey, we find that NECs are not neural crest-derived, but endoderm-derived, like PNECs, whose endodermal origin we confirm. We discover neural crest-derived catecholaminergic cells associated with zebrafish pharyngeal arch blood vessels, and propose a new model for amniote hypoxia-sensitive cell evolution: endoderm-derived NECs were retained as PNECs, while the carotid body evolved via the aggregation of neural crest-derived catecholaminergic (chromaffin) cells already associated with blood vessels in anamniote pharyngeal arches.
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| Organisation | Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam |
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Hockman, D. (Dorit), Burns, A., Schlosser, G. (Gerhard), Gates, K.P. (Keith P.), Jevans, B. (Benjamin), Mongera, A. (Alessandro), … Baker, C.V.H. (Clare V. H.). (2017). Evolution of the hypoxia-sensitive cells involved in amniote respiratory reflexes. eLife, 6. doi:10.7554/eLife.21231 |
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