Table 1.

Progenitor-specific transgenic mouse lines

Line	Time of initial expression	Labeled progenitor population	Reference
Rat α1-tubulin-YFP	E9.5	Neuroepithelium	Sawamoto et al. (2001)a
		IPs
Sox2-GFP	E10.5	Neuroepithelium	Ellis et al. (2004)
		RGPs
		Postnatal dentate gyrus
		Postnatal SVZ
Rat Nestin-GFP	E11.5	Neuroepithelium	Yamaguchi et al. (2000)
		RGPs
		Postnatal dentate gyrus
		Postnatal SVZ and RMS
GLAST-dsRed	E12.5	RGPs	Glowatzki et al. (2006)
		Postnatal dentate gyrus
Eomes/Tbr2-GFP	E12.5	IPs	Arnold et al. (2009), Kowalczyk et al. (2009)
Human GFAP-GFP	E13.5	RGPs	Malatesta et al. (2000), Zhuo et al. (1997)
		Astrocytes
BLBP-GFP, YFP, dsRed	E14.5	RGPs	Schmid et al. (2006)
		Astrocytes
		Postnatal dentate gyrus
ALDH1L1-GFP	E16.5	RGPs	Anthony and Heintz (2007, 2008), Barres (2008)
Hes5-GFP	N.D.	RGPs	Akazawa et al. (1992), Gong et al. (2003)
Fezf2-GFP	E12.5	Progenitors of deep layer projection neurons	Kwan et al. (2008), Gong et al. (2003)
Tis21-GFP	E10.5	IPs and some RGPs	Haubensak et al. (2004), Attardo et al. (2008)

Note: N.D., not determined.

^aAlso expressed in early born neurons (Coksaygan et al. 2006).