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Gillis JA, Bennett S, Criswell KE, Rees J, Sleight VA, Hirschberger C, Calzarette D, Kerr S, Dasen J. Big insight from the little skate: Leucoraja erinacea as a developmental model system. Curr Top Dev Biol 2022; 147:595-630. [PMID: 35337464 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2021.12.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
Abstract
The vast majority of extant vertebrate diversity lies within the bony and cartilaginous fish lineages of jawed vertebrates. There is a long history of elegant experimental investigation of development in bony vertebrate model systems (e.g., mouse, chick, frog and zebrafish). However, studies on the development of cartilaginous fishes (sharks, skates and rays) have, until recently, been largely descriptive, owing to the challenges of embryonic manipulation and culture in this group. This, in turn, has hindered understanding of the evolution of developmental mechanisms within cartilaginous fishes and, more broadly, within jawed vertebrates. The little skate (Leucoraja erinacea) is an oviparous cartilaginous fish and has emerged as a powerful and experimentally tractable developmental model system. Here, we discuss the collection, husbandry and management of little skate brood stock and eggs, and we present an overview of key stages of skate embryonic development. We also discuss methods for the manipulation and culture of skate embryos and illustrate the range of tools and approaches available for studying this system. Finally, we summarize a selection of recent studies on skate development that highlight the utility of this system for inferring ancestral anatomical and developmental conditions for jawed vertebrates, as well as unique aspects of cartilaginous fish biology.
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- J Andrew Gillis
- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States.
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- Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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- Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States
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- Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU School of Medicine, Neuroscience Institute, NY, United States
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Pereiro L, Loosli F, Fernández J, Härtel S, Wittbrodt J, Concha ML. Gastrulation in an annual killifish: Molecular and cellular events during germ layer formation in Austrolebias. Dev Dyn 2017; 246:812-826. [DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.24496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2016] [Revised: 01/27/2017] [Accepted: 01/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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- Luisa Pereiro
- Anatomy and Developmental Biology; Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile; Santiago Chile
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Institute of Toxicology and Genetics; Karlsruhe Germany
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- Department of Biology; Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile; Santiago Chile
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- Anatomy and Developmental Biology; Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile; Santiago Chile
- Biomedical Neuroscience Institute; Santiago Chile
- National Center for Health Information Systems CENS; Santiago Chile
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- Center for Organismal Studies; Heidelberg University; Heidelberg Germany
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- Anatomy and Developmental Biology; Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile; Santiago Chile
- Biomedical Neuroscience Institute; Santiago Chile
- Center for Geroscience, Brain Health and Metabolism; Santiago Chile
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Godard BG, Coolen M, Le Panse S, Gombault A, Ferreiro-Galve S, Laguerre L, Lagadec R, Wincker P, Poulain J, Da Silva C, Kuraku S, Carre W, Boutet A, Mazan S. Mechanisms of endoderm formation in a cartilaginous fish reveal ancestral and homoplastic traits in jawed vertebrates. Biol Open 2014; 3:1098-107. [PMID: 25361580 PMCID: PMC4232768 DOI: 10.1242/bio.20148037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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In order to gain insight into the impact of yolk increase on endoderm development, we have analyzed the mechanisms of endoderm formation in the catshark S. canicula, a species exhibiting telolecithal eggs and a distinct yolk sac. We show that in this species, endoderm markers are expressed in two distinct tissues, the deep mesenchyme, a mesenchymal population of deep blastomeres lying beneath the epithelial-like superficial layer, already specified at early blastula stages, and the involuting mesendoderm layer, which appears at the blastoderm posterior margin at the onset of gastrulation. Formation of the deep mesenchyme involves cell internalizations from the superficial layer prior to gastrulation, by a movement suggestive of ingressions. These cell movements were observed not only at the posterior margin, where massive internalizations take place prior to the start of involution, but also in the center of the blastoderm, where internalizations of single cells prevail. Like the adjacent involuting mesendoderm, the posterior deep mesenchyme expresses anterior mesendoderm markers under the control of Nodal/activin signaling. Comparisons across vertebrates support the conclusion that endoderm is specified in two distinct temporal phases in the catshark as in all major osteichthyan lineages, in line with an ancient origin of a biphasic mode of endoderm specification in gnathostomes. They also highlight unexpected similarities with amniotes, such as the occurrence of cell ingressions from the superficial layer prior to gastrulation. These similarities may correspond to homoplastic traits fixed separately in amniotes and chondrichthyans and related to the increase in egg yolk mass.
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- Benoit G Godard
- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 7150, 29688 Roscoff, France
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- Université d'Orléans-CNRS, UMR 6218, 45070 Orléans, France Present address: CNRS UPR 3294, Institute of Neurobiology Alfred Fessard, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Plateforme d'Imagerie, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, FR 2424, Station Biologique, 29688 Roscoff, France
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- Université d'Orléans-CNRS, UMR 6218, 45070 Orléans, France Present address: UMR 7355, Université d'Orleans-CNRS, 45071 Orléans, France
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- Université d'Orléans-CNRS, UMR 6218, 45070 Orléans, France Present address: Instituto de Neurociencias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas y Universidad Miguel Hernández, Campus San Juan de Alicante, 03550 Alicante, Spain
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 7150, 29688 Roscoff, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 7150, 29688 Roscoff, France
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- CEA-Institut de Génomique-Genoscope, 2 rue Gaston-Crémieux, 91057 Evry, France
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- CEA-Institut de Génomique-Genoscope, 2 rue Gaston-Crémieux, 91057 Evry, France
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- CEA-Institut de Génomique-Genoscope, 2 rue Gaston-Crémieux, 91057 Evry, France
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- Genome Resource and Analysis Unit (GRAS), Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN.2-2-3 Minatojima-minami, Chuo-KU, Kobe 650-0047, Japan
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- ABiMS, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, FR 2424, 29688 Roscoff, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 7150, 29688 Roscoff, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 7150, 29688 Roscoff, France
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Compagnucci C, Debiais-Thibaud M, Coolen M, Fish J, Griffin JN, Bertocchini F, Minoux M, Rijli FM, Borday-Birraux V, Casane D, Mazan S, Depew MJ. Pattern and polarity in the development and evolution of the gnathostome jaw: both conservation and heterotopy in the branchial arches of the shark, Scyliorhinus canicula. Dev Biol 2013; 377:428-48. [PMID: 23473983 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.02.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2012] [Revised: 01/26/2013] [Accepted: 02/18/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The acquisition of jaws constitutes a landmark event in vertebrate evolution, one that in large part potentiated their success and diversification. Jaw development and patterning involves an intricate spatiotemporal series of reciprocal inductive and responsive interactions between the cephalic epithelia and the cranial neural crest (CNC) and cephalic mesodermal mesenchyme. The coordinated regulation of these interactions is critical for both the ontogenetic registration of the jaws and the evolutionary elaboration of variable jaw morphologies and designs. Current models of jaw development and evolution have been built on molecular and cellular evidence gathered mostly in amniotes such as mice, chicks and humans, and augmented by a much smaller body of work on the zebrafish. These have been partnered by essential work attempting to understand the origins of jaws that has focused on the jawless lamprey. Chondrichthyans (cartilaginous fish) are the most distant group to amniotes within extant gnathostomes, and comprise the crucial clade uniting amniotes and agnathans; yet despite their critical phylogenetic position, evidence of the molecular and cellular underpinnings of jaw development in chondrichthyans is still lacking. Recent advances in genome and molecular developmental biology of the lesser spotted dogfish shark, Scyliorhinus canicula, make it ideal for the molecular study of chondrichthyan jaw development. Here, following the 'Hinge and Caps' model of jaw development, we have investigated evidence of heterotopic (relative changes in position) and heterochronic (relative changes in timing) shifts in gene expression, relative to amniotes, in the jaw primordia of S. canicula embryos. We demonstrate the presence of clear proximo-distal polarity in gene expression patterns in the shark embryo, thus establishing a baseline molecular baüplan for branchial arch-derived jaw development and further validating the utility of the 'Hinge and Caps' model in comparative studies of jaw development and evolution. Moreover, we correlate gene expression patterns with the absence of a lambdoidal junction (formed where the maxillary first arch meets the frontonasal processes) in chondrichthyans, further highlighting the importance of this region for the development and evolution of jaw structure in advanced gnathostomes.
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- Claudia Compagnucci
- Department of Craniofacial Development, King's College London, Floor 27, Guy's Hospital, London Bridge, London SE1 9RT, UK
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