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Development, Vol 126, Issue 12 2727-2737, Copyright © 1999 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

The zebrafish detour gene is essential for cranial but not spinal motor neuron induction

A Chandrasekhar, HE Schauerte, P Haffter and JY Kuwada
Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048, USA. anandc@missouri.edu

The zebrafish detour (dtr) mutation generates a novel neuronal phenotype. In dtr mutants, most cranial motor neurons, especially the branchiomotor, are missing. However, spinal motor neurons are generated normally. The loss of cranial motor neurons is not due to aberrant hindbrain patterning, failure of neurogenesis, increased cell death or absence of hh expression. Furthermore, activation of the Hh pathway, which normally induces branchiomotor neurons, fails to induce motor neurons in the dtr hindbrain. Despite this, not all Hh-mediated regulation of hindbrain development is abolished since the regulation of a neural gene by Hh is intact in the dtr hindbrain. Finally, dtr can function cell autonomously to induce branchiomotor neurons. These results suggest that detour encodes a component of the Hh signaling pathway that is essential for the induction of motor neurons in the hindbrain but not in the spinal cord and that dtr function is required for the induction of only a subset of Hh-mediated events in the hindbrain.


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