Development of the cerebellum in the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) and short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)

Brain, Behavior and Evolution
Ken W S Ashwell

Abstract

The monotremes are a unique group of mammals whose young are incubated in a leathery-shelled egg and fed with milk from teatless areolae after hatching. As soon as they hatch, monotreme young must be able to maneuver around the nest or maternal pouch to locate the areolae and stimulate milk ejection. In the present study, the embryological collections at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, have been used to follow the development of the monotreme cerebellum through incubation and lactational phases, to determine whether cerebellar circuitry is able to contribute to the coordination of locomotion in the monotreme hatchling, and to correlate cerebellar development with behavioral maturation. The structure of the developing monotreme cerebellum and the arrangement of transitory neuronal populations are similar to those reported for fetal and neonatal eutherians, but the time course of the key events of later cerebellar development is spread over a much longer period. Expansion of the rostral rhombic lip and formation of the nuclear and cortical transitory zones occurs by the time of hatching, but it is not until after the end of the first post-hatching week that deep cerebellar neurons begin to settle in their definitive positions ...Continue Reading

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Oct 22, 2019·The Anatomical Record : Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology·Ken W S AshwellYamila Gurovich

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