Target muscles and sensory afferents do not influence steroid-regulated, segment-specific death of identified motoneurons in Manduca sexta

Journal of Neurobiology
J L Lubischer, J C Weeks

Abstract

Programmed cell death plays a critical role in sculpting the nervous system during embryonic development. In holometabolous insects, cell death also plays an important role in the reorganization of the nervous system during metamorphosis. In Manduca sexta, cell death and the factors that regulate it can be studied at the level of individually identified neurons. The accessory planta retractor (APR) motoneurons undergo segment-specific death during the larval-pupal transformation. APRs in abdominal segments 1, 5, and 6 die at pupation; those in abdominal segments 2, 3, and 4 survive until adulthood. Juvenile hormone and ecdysteroids regulate the metamorphic restructuring of the nervous system, but the factors that determine which APRs will live and which will die are not known. The present study assessed the possible importance of cell-cell interactions in determining APR survival at pupation by removing APR's target muscle or mechanosensory input early in the final larval instar, prior to the hormonal cues that trigger the larval-pupal transformation. The motoneurons showed their normal, segment-specific pattern of death in nearly all cases. These results suggest that target muscles and sensory input play little or no role in d...Continue Reading

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