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Development, Vol 125, Issue 1 143-150, Copyright © 1998 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Cell lineage in marine nematode Enoplus brevis

DA Voronov and YV Panchin
Institute of Problems of Information Transmission, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. voronov@neuro.genebee.msu.su

Early cleavages of the marine nematode Enoplus brevis are symmetrical and occur in synchrony. At the 2- to 16-cell stages, blastomeres are indistinguishable. The progeny of blastomeres was investigated by intracellular injections of fluorescent dyes and horse radish peroxidase. One blastomere of the 2-cell embryo gives rise to a compact group of cells occupying about half of an embryo. The border between labeled and unlabeled cells differs in each embryo dividing it to anterior-posterior, left-right or intermediate parts. At the 8-cell stage, one blastomere gives rise to only endoderm, whereas the other blastomeres produce progeny that form multiple cell types, including nerve, muscle and hypoderm cells, in various proportions. Thus the fates of the blastomeres of early E. brevis embryos, with the exception of the endoderm precursor, are not determined. The process of gastrulation in E. brevis is very similar to that in Caenorhabditis elegans and other nematodes. At the beginning of gastrulation, the 2-celled endoderm precursor lies on the surface of embryo and then sinks inwards. After labeling of cells on the ventral side (near endoderm precursor) at the beginning of gastrulation, their progeny differentiate predominantly into body muscles or pharyngeal cells of the first stage larva. Cells that are located more laterally give rise mainly to neurons. The dorsal blastomeres differentiated principally into hypoderm cells. Our study suggests that a precise cell lineage is not a necessary attribute of nematode development.


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