Multi-view light-sheet imaging and tracking with the MaMuT software reveals the cell lineage of a direct developing arthropod limb

  1. Carsten Wolff  Is a corresponding author
  2. Jean-Yves Tinevez
  3. Tobias Pietzsch
  4. Evangelia Stamataki
  5. Benjamin Harich
  6. Léo Guignard
  7. Stephan Preibisch
  8. Spencer Shorte
  9. Philipp J Keller
  10. Pavel Tomancak  Is a corresponding author
  11. Anastasios Pavlopoulos  Is a corresponding author
  1. Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin, Germany
  2. Institut Pasteur, France
  3. Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany
  4. Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States
  5. Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
  6. Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany

Abstract

During development, coordinated cell behaviors orchestrate tissue and organ morphogenesis. Detailed descriptions of cell lineages and behaviors provide a powerful framework to elucidate the mechanisms of morphogenesis. To study the cellular basis of limb development, we imaged transgenic fluorescently-labeled embryos from the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis with multi-view light-sheet microscopy at high spatiotemporal resolution over several days of embryogenesis. The cell lineage of outgrowing thoracic limbs was reconstructed at single-cell resolution with new software called Massive Multi-view Tracker (MaMuT). In silico clonal analyses suggested that the early limb primordium becomes subdivided into anterior-posterior and dorsal-ventral compartments whose boundaries intersect at the distal tip of the growing limb. Limb-bud formation is associated with spatial modulation of cell proliferation, while limb elongation is also driven by preferential orientation of cell divisions along the proximal-distal growth axis. Cellular reconstructions were predictive of the expression patterns of limb development genes including the BMP morphogen Decapentaplegic.

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  1. Carsten Wolff

    Institut für Biologie, Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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  2. Jean-Yves Tinevez

    Center for Innovation and Technological Research, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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  3. Tobias Pietzsch

    Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
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  4. Evangelia Stamataki

    Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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  5. Benjamin Harich

    Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
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  6. Léo Guignard

    Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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  7. Stephan Preibisch

    Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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  8. Spencer Shorte

    Center for Innovation and Technological Research, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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  9. Philipp J Keller

    Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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  10. Pavel Tomancak

    Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
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    tomancak@mpi-cbg.de
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  11. Anastasios Pavlopoulos

    Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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    pavlopoulosa@janelia.hhmi.org
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Funding

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  • Evangelia Stamataki
  • Léo Guignard
  • Philipp J Keller
  • Anastasios Pavlopoulos

European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (FP7-IEF 302235)

  • Anastasios Pavlopoulos

Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

  • Tobias Pietzsch
  • Benjamin Harich
  • Pavel Tomancak

European Research Council (260746)

  • Tobias Pietzsch
  • Pavel Tomancak

Einstein Stiftung Berlin (A-2012_114)

  • Carsten Wolff

Institut Pasteur

  • Jean-Yves Tinevez
  • Spencer Shorte

Agence Nationale de la Recherche

  • Jean-Yves Tinevez
  • Spencer Shorte

Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

  • Stephan Preibisch

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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© 2018, Wolff et al.

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  1. Carsten Wolff
  2. Jean-Yves Tinevez
  3. Tobias Pietzsch
  4. Evangelia Stamataki
  5. Benjamin Harich
  6. Léo Guignard
  7. Stephan Preibisch
  8. Spencer Shorte
  9. Philipp J Keller
  10. Pavel Tomancak
  11. Anastasios Pavlopoulos
(2018)
Multi-view light-sheet imaging and tracking with the MaMuT software reveals the cell lineage of a direct developing arthropod limb
eLife 7:e34410.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34410

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