Module 3 - Development Flashcards
Eggs and cleavage
Cleavage - splitting
Size and distribution of yolk
Polarity in some
Animal pole - embro
Vegetal pole - yolk
Holoblastic cleavage
complete, all embryo
isolechital eggs
sparse, evenly distributed yolk
- therian mammals, amphixous
Mesolechital eggs
moderate vegetal yolk disposition
- amphibians
meroblastic
incomplete cleavage
telolecithal (megalecithal)
dense yolk
discoidal cleavage
only small part becomes embryo
- most fish, reptiles, birds, monotremes
Early stages
- morula - solid ball of cells
- Blastula - becomes hollow
- Hollow - Blastocoel
- inner cell mass = embryo
- Also source of embryonic stem cells.
Label:
Blastopore
Gastrocoel
Endoderm
Ectoderm
yellow; ectoderm
blue; endoderm
red; gastrocoel
dark blue; blastopore
gastrula
invagination
opening
blastopore
deuterostome
“second mouth”
- becomes anus in craniates
tube
gastocoel or archenteron
diploblastic - two layers
Endoderm - inside
Ectoderm - outside
Mesoderm
- part of the endoderm differentiates
- takes part of the gastrocoel with it
- enterocoely
- primitive streak in amniotes - occurs at the same time
- sets up axes of the body
- different in protostomes
- triploblastic
Differentation
Quickly the tissue layers begin to differentaite
- notochord already visible early
- Neural plate will form neural tube
Neuralation
- neural plate folds
- neural crest begins formation
- mesoderm differentates
- coelom forms
Mesoderm splits
Dermatome - dermis
myotome
muscle
sclerotime
vertebrae, vertebral rib
nephrotome
kidney
somatic hypomere
limbs, peritoneum, gonads
splachnic hypomere
heart, blood vessels, mesenteries that cover organs (dorsal and ventral mesenteries)
ectoderm
epidermis, nerves and brain, some other contributions thrugh neural crest
Neural crest formation
- Synapomorphy for craniates
- form from tissue near neural tube
- break off
- migrate along sepcific pathway
- pluripotent cell - can form many cell types
- types produced defined by surroinding tissues
zebrafish embryo
36 hours post fertilization
Neural crest
- ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves
- most pigement cells except those of eye and spinal cord
- most cartilage of lower jaw
- through evolution, more and more of the skull is of neural crest origin
- differentiates very early
- not tied to mesoderm or neural tissue
- green cells are neural crest
- disurptions in development can cause cleft palate, heart valve malformations and tumors.
Neuroblastoma - cancer of NC-derived sympathic nerve cells
- most common solid tumor in children
- 15% of childhood cancer deaths
- 1,000 new cases/year in US
- usually near adrenals, but can be anywhere along spine
- symptoms are vague and non specific
Are vertebrates segmented?
yes
which is the sclerotome?
D
Haeckel, biogenetic law
Ontogoney - Development
Recapitulates - Reviews/Replays
Phylogeny - Evolutionary History
Biogenetic tendency - not law
- Recapitulation ..What’s wrong?
- We aren’t fish, we look like fish embryos
- Evo-Devo
Von Baer’s Law
Development proceeds from general to specific
- an embryo that can be anything
- preserve early stages
- modify them later in development
Epigenetics
- Proteins affected by manu things through interaction
- almost all development above the gene
- due to interaction of proteins
- no eye gene or hand gene
Homeobox genes
- short (180bp)
- 60AA homeodomain
- Highly conserved
- Approx 235 in humans
- homeotic genes - HOX genes
HOX genes
Proteins with homeodomains acts as TF
Homeodomain attaches to regulatory regions of target genes
these are found in order on chromosomes
Are human eyes and fly eyes homologous?
Yes, in that they both use PAX6, but not structurally
Human aniridia
no iris
The eye case study
- Complex eyes evolved 50-100 times
- Pax6 gene controls it (homeobox gene)
- Conserved - mouse works on fruit fly
- Eyes not even homologous
- Controls expression of rhodopsin pigments
- genes that have been around since bacteria
Heterozygous mutation to pax 6 = Human aniridia
Homozygous = lethal
induction
- stimulatory effect between developing tissues
- neural tube induces sclerotomes to form vertebrae
- insures fit
- remove neural tube, not vertebrae grow in that section
- opposite not true
- usually mesoderm induces ecto-or endoderm
Reciprocal induction
- Two or more developing tissues effect one another’s development
- tissues link better
- Apical Ectodermal ridge - length og limb
- mesodermal core - front or back limb
- switch mesodermal cores
- limbs reversed
- no AER, no limbs
- AER effected by hox genes
snake limbs
- pythons have hind limbs, not forelimbs
- loss caused by interaction of Hoxc6 and Hoxc8
Limb bud
- time spent in PZ derermines that forms along length
- Patterning uses Sonic Hedgehog gene
- Which orders the digits and sets number
- Active in ZPA
Removal of AER (Apical Ectodermal Ridge) at different stages results in terminal truncation
a humerus may have the proximal end normal but the distal portion cut off
What is expressed in this diagram?
Mirror image dupilication
Forming hands
- Apply retinoic acid to developing skate fin
- causes fin to not have single axis
- like tetrapod limbs
B
Heterochrony
- changes in timing of development
- Peramorphosis
- Elder form - exaggeration of adult morphologies
- Paedomorphosis
- Child form - retention of juvenile morhpology
Heterochrony –> Paedomorphosis
Progenesis - early offset
Neoteny - Slow raye
Ppstdisplacement - late onset
Heterochrony –> peramorphosis
Hypermorphosis - late offset
acceleration - fast rate
predisplacement - early onset