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The Journal of Neuroscience, December 15, 2001, 21(24):9713-9723

Structure and Emergence of Specific Olfactory Glomeruli in the Mouse

Steve M. Potter¹, Chen Zheng², David S. Koos¹, Paul Feinstein², Scott E. Fraser¹, and Peter Mombaerts²

¹ Biological Imaging Center, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, and ² The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021

Olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) expressing a given odorant receptor (OR) gene project their axons to a few specific glomeruli that reside at recognizable locations in the olfactory bulb. Connecting ~1000 populations of OSNs to the ~1800 glomeruli of the mouse bulb poses a formidable wiring problem. Additional progress in understanding the mechanisms of neuronal connectivity is dependent on knowing how these axonal pathways are organized and how they form during development. Here we have applied a genetic approach to this problem. We have constructed by gene targeting novel strains of mice in which either all OSNs or those that express a specific OR gene, M72 or M71, also produce green fluorescent protein (GFP) or a fusion of tau with GFP. We visualized OSNs and their axons in whole mounts with two-photon laser scanning microscopy. The main conclusion we draw from the three-dimensional reconstructions is the high degree of morphological variability of mature glomeruli receiving axonal input from OR-expressing OSNs and of the pathways taken by the axons to those glomeruli. We also observe that axons of OR-expressing OSNs do not innervate nearby glomeruli in mature mice. Postnatally, a tangle of axons from M72-expressing OSNs occupies a large surface area of the bulb and coalesces abruptly into a protoglomerulus at a reproducible stage of development. These results differ in several aspects from those reported for the development of glomeruli receiving input from OSNs expressing the P2 OR, suggesting the need for a more systematic examination of OR-specific glomeruli.

Key words: olfaction; olfactory system; olfactory bulb; glomerulus; sensory neuron; olfactory receptor; odorant receptor; tau; green fluorescent protein; two-photon microscopy; axon guidance

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