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Volume 17, Number 24,
Issue of December 15, 1997
pp. 9642-9655
The Origin, Location, and Projections of the Embryonic Abdominal
Motorneurons of Drosophila
Matthias Landgraf1,
Torsten Bossing2,
Gerd M. Technau3, and
Michael Bate1
1 Department of Zoology, Cambridge University,
Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom, 2 Wellcome/CRC
Institute, Cambridge CB2 1QR, United Kingdom, and
3 Institut für Genetik, Universität Mainz,
55122 Mainz, Germany
We have used a retrograde labeling technique to identify
motorneurons for each of the 30 body wall muscles of an abdominal hemisegment in the late stage 16 Drosophila embryo. Each
motorneuron has a characteristic cell body position, dendritic
arborization, and axonal projection. In addition, we have determined
the neuroblasts of origin for most of the motorneurons we describe.
Some organizational principles for the neuromuscular system have become
apparent: (1) There is no obvious topographic relationship between the
cell body positions of motorneurons and the position or orientation of
the muscles they innervate; (2) motorneurons that innervate muscles of
similar position and orientation are often clustered and have
overlapping dendritic trees; (3) morphologically similar motorneurons
are generally derived from a common neuroblast and innervate
operationally related muscles; and (4) neuroblasts can give rise to
more than one morphological type of motorneuron.
Key words:
Drosophila;
motorneuron;
development;
lineage;
structure;
connectivity;
arborization;
neuroblast
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