Abstract
We previously showed that the growth of each bundle of eight optic fibers from one ommatidium into the optic lamina of Daphnia occurs in such a way that one of the eight fibers precedes the others into the lamina. The growth cone of this lead fiber makes surface contact with undifferentiated neuroblasts near the midplane. This is followed by a glial-like wrapping of each neuroblast around the fiber. In this report, gap junctions are shown to form for a short period of time between the growing lead fiber and the neuroblast that is wrapping around it. It is proposed that these junctions may represent a morphological correlate of informational exchange between axon and neuroblast. This signaling would then reflect the fact that the sequence of axon proliferation by the lamina neuroblasts within an optic cartrdige, ultimately composed of five lamina neurons and eight optic fibers, parallels the order in which the neuroblasts undergo the wrapping reaction with the lead fiber.
Keywords: neuronal specificity, serial sections, crustacea
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