PUBLICATION
Isolation and characterization of the laure olfactory behavioral mutant in the zebrafish, Danio rerio
- Authors
- Vitebsky, A., Reyes, R., Sanderson, M.J., Michel, W.C., and Whitlock, K.E.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-050810-11
- Date
- 2005
- Source
- Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists 234(1): 229-242 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Michel, William C., Reyes, Rosie, Vitebsky, Anna, Whitlock, Kate
- Keywords
- olfactory sensory neurons, olfactory bulb, pioneer neurons, avoidance response, L-cysteine, electro-olfactogram
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Behavior, Animal/physiology*
- Calbindin 2
- Cysteine/metabolism*
- Electrophysiology
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique
- Neurons, Afferent/cytology
- Neurons, Afferent/metabolism
- Olfactory Bulb/abnormalities
- Olfactory Bulb/cytology
- Olfactory Bulb/metabolism
- S100 Calcium Binding Protein G/metabolism
- Smell/genetics*
- Smell/physiology
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- Zebrafish/metabolism
- PubMed
- 16086331 Full text @ Dev. Dyn.
Citation
Vitebsky, A., Reyes, R., Sanderson, M.J., Michel, W.C., and Whitlock, K.E. (2005) Isolation and characterization of the laure olfactory behavioral mutant in the zebrafish, Danio rerio. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 234(1):229-242.
Abstract
To initiate a genetic analysis of olfactory development and function in the zebrafish, Danio rerio, we developed a behavioral genetic screen for mutations affecting the olfactory sensory system. First, we characterized olfactory responses of wild-type zebrafish to various odors. We found that 3-day-old juvenile zebrafish reacted to the amino acid L-cysteine with an aversive behavioral response. We isolated one mutant, laure (lre), which showed no aversive behavioral response to L-cysteine at 3 days of development, and carried out a preliminary characterization of this mutant's defects. We found that lre mutant fish were also defective in their response to L-serine and L-alanine, but not to taurocholic acid, as young adults. In addition, lre mutant fish had significantly fewer primary olfactory sensory neurons than normal, and the axons of these neurons did not form the characteristic axon termination pattern in the developing olfactory bulb. Nevertheless, the olfactory epithelium of lre mutant fish showed normal or near normal electrophysiological responses to several odorants. Our data suggest that the behavioral defects observed in the lre mutant result from the disruption of the developing olfactory sensory neurons and their axonal connections within the olfactory bulb. The isolation of the lre mutant shows that our behavior-based screen represents a viable approach for carrying out a genetic dissection of olfactory behaviors in this vertebrate model system. Developmental Dynamics, 2005. (c) 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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