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This chapter describes the development of the medaka diencephalon, optic tectum, and cerebellum. The diencephalon of teleosts is divided into two main parts, the medial and lateral parts. The medial diencephalon is further divided into five regions, and these subdivisions become visible in the larvae at stage 39. The lateral diencephalon contains migrated cell groups, such as the corpus glomerulosum system and preglomerular nuclear complex (PG). Developmental studies by in situ hybridization using a pax6b2 gene probe suggest that the PG is migrated alar nuclei and a teleost homologue of the mammalian thalamus. According to recent studies, however, neurons of different origins may also contribute to the PG. The optic tectum has cell proliferation zones in the marginal edges, named the marginal proliferating zone. The generated cells are added tangentially at the tectum’s edge as a column of cells spanning the whole thickness of the tectum to form a laminated tectum. The cerebellar primordium is formed from the alar plates of the isthmic and the first rhombomeres. At stage 26, the isthmic rhombomere protrudes into the mesencephalic ventricle to form the valvula cerebelli, a cerebellar structure specific in ray-finned fishes except for polypteriforms. The cerebellar primordium is connected to the mesencephalon proper by the mesencephalic sheet, a thin neuroepithelium. The left/right halves of the primordium start to fuse at stage 34, and several cell proliferation zones are formed in the cerebellum at stage 36.
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Ishikawa, Y., Yamamoto, N., Hagio, H. (2022). Development of Diencephalon, Optic Tectum, and Cerebellum. In: Brain Development of Medaka Fish. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4324-9_11
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