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Genetical analyses for the development of the nervous system by isolating mutants in zebrafish Hironori Wada 1 , Miki Iwasaki 1,2 , Hitoshi Okamoto 1,2 1Laboratory for Developmental Gene Regulation, rain Science Institute, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research(RIKEN) 2Core Research for Evolutional Sci-ence and Technology(CREST) Keyword: ゼブラフィッシュ , 突然変異 , 神経発生 , 遺伝子クローニング pp.814-822
Published Date 2003/12/10
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1431100366
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 Although the human and mouse genome projects have recently completed, functions for most of the genes remain unknown. Zebrafish is an excellent model to study functions of genes in the development of the nervous system because of its genetical and embryological accessibility. By taking advantage of this nature, we are now carrying out a large-scale mutagenesis and have been isolated many mutant strains which have defects in development of brain structures. Here, we show the novel mutants in which the migration of the neuronal cells is impaired.

 In the zebrafish hindbrain, the facial motor neurons are born in rhombomere 4(r4), and they migrate caudally into rhombomere 6(r6), where they form the facial motor nucleus. We showed that two novel genes, landlocked(llk) and traffic jam(tam), are required for the migration of facial motor neurons. Here, we report our study toward molecular identification of the llk gene by positional cloning strategy.

 Firstly, we mapped the llk locus by the bulked segregant analysis(BSA). The llk locus was assigned to the linkage group 7. Secondly,the representational difference analysis(RDA)was carried out to isolate closely linked DNA fragments. In consequence, we obtained a DNA fragment located at 0cM distance from the llk locus. By screening of a PAC library together with the Sanger Institute zebrafish genome database, genomic sequences associated with the RDA fragments were obtained. At this moment, we identified~500 kb region covering the llk locus, and several genes are predicted in this region. To identify the mutation site, further recombinational analyses and isolation of the candidate genes are now under way.


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