To investigate the lineage relationships that are postulated to underlie the origins of phenotypically different neurons, Thy-1.1 $ leftrightarrow$ Thy-1.2 and hNF-L $ leftrightarrow$ +/+ mouse chimeras were examined for the distribution of the two neuron genotypes. Throughout the nervous system, a finely variegated pattern of mosaicism was always observed and, in each chimera, similar genotype proportions were found in all analysed neuronal populations of the peripheral and central nervous system. These findings require that the chimera neuroectoderm was a homogeneous mix of the two genotypes and that different neuronal phenotypes do not arise clonally from a small number of prespecified progenitors. Rather it would seem that all progenitors contribute daughter cells to all of the neuronal subpopulations at each level of the neuroaxis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.59410 |
| Date | January 1989 |
| Creators | Mayor, Olivier |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Biology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001067932, proquestno: AAIMM63585, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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