Differing contributions of the first and second pharyngeal arches to tympanic membrane formation in the mouse and chick.
Development, 2017/09/15;144(18):3315-3324.
Furutera T[1], Takechi M[2], Kitazawa T[3, 4, 5], Takei J[1], Yamada T[1], Vu Hoang T[1], Rijli FM[5, 6], Kurihara H[3, 4, 7], Kuratani S[8], Iseki S[1]
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PMID: 28807901DOI: 10.1242/dev.149765
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Abstract
We have proposed that independent origins of the tympanic membrane (TM), consisting of the external auditory meatus (EAM) and first pharyngeal pouch, are linked with distinctive middle ear structures in terms of dorsal-ventral patterning of the pharyngeal arches during amniote evolution. However, previous studies have suggested that the first pharyngeal arch (PA1) is crucial for TM formation in both mouse and chick. In this study, we compare TM formation along the anterior-posterior axis in these animals using Hoxa2 expression as a marker of the second pharyngeal arch (PA2). In chick, the EAM begins to invaginate at the surface ectoderm of PA2, not at the first pharyngeal cleft, and the entire TM forms in PA2. Chick-quail chimera that have lost PA2 and duplicated PA1 suggest that TM formation is achieved by developmental interaction between a portion of the EAM and the columella auris in PA2, and that PA1 also contributes to formation of the remaining part of the EAM. By contrast, in mouse, TM formation is highly associated with an interdependent relationship between the EAM and tympanic ring in PA1.
Keywords: Chick-quail chimera; External auditory meatus; Hoxa2; Middle ear; Morphological evolution; Mouse; Tympanic membrane
MeSH terms
Animals; Branchial Region; Chick Embryo; Chickens; Ear Canal; Ear, Middle; Embryo, Mammalian; Green Fluorescent Proteins; Homeodomain Proteins; Mice; Mice, Knockout; Models, Biological; Phenotype; Quail; Tympanic Membrane
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