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Development, Vol 113, Issue 2 701-707, Copyright © 1991 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Early ablation of target muscles modulates the arborisation pattern of an identified embryonic Drosophila motor axon

H Sink and PM Whitington
Department of Zoology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.

The Drosophila RP3 motor axon establishes a stereotypic arborisation along the adjoining edges of muscles 6 and 7 by the end of embryogenesis. The present study has examined the role of the target muscles in determining this axonal arborisation pattern. Target muscles were surgically ablated prior to the arrival of the RP3 axon. Following further development of the embryo in culture medium, the morphology of target-deprived RP3 motor axons was assayed by intracellular injection with the dye Lucifer Yellow. Axonal arborisations were formed on a variety of non-target muscles when muscles 6 and 7 were removed and these contacts were maintained into stage 16. The pattern of axonal arborisations over non-target muscles varied between preparations in terms of the number of muscles contacted, and the distribution of arborisations on individual muscles. Following removal of muscle 6, the RP3 motor axon frequently contacted muscle 7, and axonal arborisations were present along the distal edge of the muscle. In the absence of muscle 7, the RP3 axon often did not contact muscle 6 and when muscle 6 was contacted, the arborisation of RP3 was poorly developed. Axonal processes were retained on non-target muscles when only one target muscle was present. Therefore, the establishment of a stereotypic arborisation by the RP3 motor axon is apparently dependent on growth cone contact with both target muscles.


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