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Molecular and cellular determinants of motor asymmetry in zebrafish

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  • Eric J. Horstick

    (Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    West Virginia University)

  • Yared Bayleyen

    (Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

  • Harold A. Burgess

    (Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

Abstract

Asymmetries in motor behavior, such as human hand preference, are observed throughout bilateria. However, neural substrates and developmental signaling pathways that impose underlying functional lateralization on a broadly symmetric nervous system are unknown. Here we report that in the absence of over-riding visual information, zebrafish larvae show intrinsic lateralized motor behavior that is mediated by a cluster of 60 posterior tuberculum (PT) neurons in the forebrain. PT neurons impose motor bias via a projection through the habenular commissure. Acquisition of left/right identity is disrupted by heterozygous mutations in mosaic eyes and mindbomb, genes that regulate Notch signaling. These results define the neuronal substrate for motor asymmetry in a vertebrate and support the idea that haploinsufficiency for genes in a core developmental pathway destabilizes left/right identity.

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  • Eric J. Horstick & Yared Bayleyen & Harold A. Burgess, 2020. "Molecular and cellular determinants of motor asymmetry in zebrafish," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 11(1), pages 1-15, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:11:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-020-14965-y
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14965-y
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