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Et(CLG-YFP)smb750

Et(CLG-YFP)smb750

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 synonyms: clgy750, smb750Et.

This enhancer trap line was generated as part of a large enhancer screen performed by the Becker Lab. This enhancer trap transgenic line shows expression of YFP in the  olfactory bulb, telencephalon, pretectum, torus longitudinalis, cerebellum.

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Lab or Origin: Becker Lab

Expressed in: 

 olfactory bulb, telencephalon, pretectum, torus longitudinalis, cerebellum.

Key Publications

 Kikuta, H., Laplante, M., Navratilova, P., Komisarczuk, A.Z., Engstrom, P.G., Fredman, D., Akalin, A., Caccamo, M., Sealy, I., Howe, K., Ghislain, J., Pezeron, G., Mourrain, P., Ellingsen, S., Oates, A.C., Thisse, C., Thisse, B., Foucher, I., Adolf, B., Geling, A., Lenhard, B., and Becker, T.S. (2007)
Genomic regulatory blocks encompass multiple neighboring genes and maintain conserved synteny in vertebrates.
Genome research. 17(5):545-555.

Tg(gata2:eGFP)bi105

Tg(gata2:eGFP)bi105

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The Tg(gata2:eGFP)bi105 enhancer trap transgenic line was generated as part of an enhancer trap screen by the Becker Lab using the Tol2-transposase system. It has GFP expression throughout the pallium, in a small subpallial nucleus, parapineal organ, optic tectum, pretectum, posterior tuberculum and lateral hypothalamus. In the hindbrain, several cell bodies are labelled in the superior raphe and areas of the reticular formation and caudally in areas of the medulla oblongata

 

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 ZFIN

Lab of Origin: Tom Becker Lab

Transgene expressed in: 

Key Publications

 

Folgueira, M., Bayley, P., Navratilova, P., Becker, T.S., Wilson, S.W., and Clarke, J.D. (2012)
Morphogenesis underlying the development of the everted teleost telencephalon.
Neural Development. 7(1):32


Ragvin, A., Moro, E., Fredman, D., Navratilova, P., Drivenes, O., Engström, P.G., Alonso, M.E., Mustienes, E.D., Gomez Skarmeta, J.L., Tavares, M.J., Casares, F., Manzanares, M., van Heyningen, V., Molven, A., Njølstad, P.R., Argenton, F., Lenhard, B., and Becker, T.S. (2010)
Long-range gene regulation links genomic type 2 diabetes and obesity risk regions to HHEX, SOX4, and IRX3.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107(2):775-780

Turner, K.J., Hawkins, T.A., Yáñez, J., Anadón, R., Wilson, S.W., Folgueira, M. (2016)
Afferent Connectivity of the Zebrafish Habenulae.
Frontiers in neural circuits. 10:30

 

pku2Et/ ETvmat2:GFP

pku2Et/ ETvmat2:GFP

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 Synonyms: Et(gata2a:EGFP)pku2, Et(gata2a:GFP)zf81, pku2Et, ETvmat2:GFP

The ETvmat2:GFP transgenic zebrafish line was identified from a large scale enhancer trap screen (unpublished data (Wen et al., 2008)) using a Tol2 vector containing a 249 bp zebrafish gata2 minimal promoter linked to a GFP reporter gene. (Wen et al., 2008). The enhancer trap vector was inserted in the second intron of vmat2 gene with the transcription direction of the GFP reporter opposite to that of the vmat2 gene (Wen et al., 2008).

This enhancer trap line recapitulates the expression pattern of vmat2 and labels most monaminergic neurons in the zebrafish. Vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (Vmat2) is a monoamine transporter VMAT2 is a membrane protein that transports monoamines, including neurotransmitters such as dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, and histamine from the cytosol into synaptic vesicles.

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Lab or Origin: PKU Zebrafish Functional Genomics Group

Expressed in: 

 monoaminergic neurons, olfactory bulb, telencephalon, pretectum, pineal, posterior tuberculum, torus longitudinalis, raphe, ventral lateral group of serotinergic neurons in hindbrain(VL) , hypothalamus, locus coerulus.

Key Publications

Wen, L., Wei, W., Gu, W., Huang, P., Ren, X., Zhang, Z., Zhu, Z., Lin, S., and Zhang, B. (2008)
Visualization of monoaminergic neurons and neurotoxicity of MPTP in live transgenic zebrafish. Developmental Biology. 314(1):84-92. 

Farrar, M.J., Kolkman, K.E., Fetcho, J.R. (2018)
Features of the structure, development and activity of the Zebrafish Noradrenergic System explored in new CRISPR transgenic lines.
The Journal of comparative neurology. 526(15):2493-2508.

Tg(pou4f1-hsp70l:GFP)

Tg(pou4f1-hsp70l:GFP)

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Tg(pou4f1-hsp70l:GFP) formally Tg(brn3a-hsp70:GFP) expresses green fluorescent protein (GFP) under the control of enhancer elements of brn3a, a POU-domain transcription-factor-encoding gene expressed in the habenula, retina, optic tectum, torus semicircularis and cranial sensory ganglia including the neuromasts of the lateral line and inner ear.

GFP is expressed in retinal ganglion cells and amacrine cells. Projections from RGCs can be seen traversing the optic nerve and innervating the superficial neuropil layer of the optic tectum. In addition, there were neurons expressing GFP in the deeper layers of the tectum. Given that the tectum sends motor outputs from the deeper layers it is likely that these neurons were involved in sending motor outputs to the hindbrain.

The tectobulbar tract descends from the deeper layers of the optic tectum ipsilaterally to connect with the reticulospinal neurons in the hindbrain (Sato et al., 2007).

This transgenic expresses GFP in the dorsal medial habenula subnuclei. Projections from dHbM neurons to the IPN can be seen traversing the fasiculus retroflexus and terminating in the Interpeduncular nuclei. Habenula axons exhibit a spiralling terminal morphology when innervating the IPN (Aizawa et al., 2005).

 

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Lab of Origin: Hitoshi Okamoto Lab

Transgene expressed in: 

dorsal habenula, retina, optic tectum, tecto-bulbar tract, fasiculus retroflexus, neuromasts of lateral line, cranial nerve ganglia, hair cells of inner ear.

Key Publications

Sato, T., Hamaoka, T., Aizawa, H., Hosoya, T., and Okamoto, H. (2007)
Genetic single-cell mosaic analysis implicates ephrinB2 reverse signaling in projections from the posterior tectum to the hindbrain in zebrafish.
The Journal of Neuroscience 27(20):5271-5279.

Aizawa, H., Bianco, I.H., Hamaoka, T., Miyashita, T., Uemura, O., Concha, M.L., Russell, C., Wilson, S.W., and Okamoto, H. (2005)
Laterotopic Representation of Left-Right Information onto the Dorso-Ventral Axis of a Zebrafish Midbrain Target Nucleus.
Current biology. 15(3):238-243.

deCarvalho, T.N., Subedi, A., Rock, J., Harfe, B.D., Thisse, C., Thisse, B., Halpern, M.E., Hong, E. (2014) Neurotransmitter map of the asymmetric dorsal habenular nuclei of zebrafish.
Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000). 52(6):636-55.

 

Tg(slc6a3:EGFP)ot80

Tg(slc6a3:EGFP)ot80

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The Tg(slc6a3:EGFP)ot80 transgenic line expresses GFP under the control of
cis-regulatory elements of the dopamine transporter (DAT) gene slc6a3.

 

External Links:

 ZFIN

Lab of Origin: Mark Ekker Lab

Transgene expressed in: 

olfactory bulb, subpallium, preoptic region, pretectum, posterior tuberculum, hypothalamus, optic tectum, cerebellum

Key Publications

 

Xi Y1, Yu M, Godoy R, Hatch G, Poitras L, Ekker M.
Transgenic zebrafish expressing green fluorescent protein in dopaminergic neurons of the ventral diencephalon.
Dev Dyn. 2011 Nov;240(11):2539-47. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.22742. Epub 2011 Sep 19.

 

Tg(slc17a6b: DsRed)nns9Tg

Tg(slc17a6b: DsRed)nns9Tg

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 Slc17a6b is a vesicular glutamate transporter that that mediates the uptake of the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate into vesicles in the presynaptic terminals of excitatory neurons. This BAC transgenic line from the Yoshihara lab drives the expression of DSRed in glutamatergic neurons. Expression can be seen in many neurons throughout the brain. Strong expression in the dorsal and ventral habenular subnuclei, olfactory bulbs, the pallium and optic tectum

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Lab or Origin: Yoshihara Lab

Expressed in: 

 glutamatergic neurons, olfactory epithelium, olfactory bulb, pallium, subpallium, dorsal habenula, ventral habenula, preoptic area, prethalamus, pretectum (AF9), optic tectum, trigeminal sensory ganglion.

Key Publications

 
Miyasaka, N., Morimoto, K., Tsubokawa, T., Higashijima, S., Okamoto, H., and Yoshihara, Y. (2009)
From the olfactory bulb to higher brain centers: genetic visualization of secondary olfactory pathways in zebrafish.
The Journal of neuroscience. 29(15):4756-4767.

Kani, S., Bae, Y.K., Shimizu, T., Tanabe, K., Satou, C., Parsons, M.J., Scott, E., Higashijima, S.I., and Hibi, M. (2010) Proneural gene-linked neurogenesis in zebrafish cerebellum.
Developmental Biology. 343(1-2):1-17.

Tg5(Hsa.SOX3-gata2a:EGFP)bi85Tg

Tg5(Hsa.SOX3-gata2a:EGFP)bi85Tg

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The construct used to create this enhancer trap line contains the highly conserved noncoding element  "hs7" from the regulatory region of the human SOX3 gene.

External Links:

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Lab or Origin: Tom Becker Lab

Expressed in: 

 olfactory bulb, subpallium, habenula, AF9 pretectum, optic tectum, cerebellum.

Key Publications

 Navratilova, P., Fredman, D., Hawkins, T.A., Turner, K., Lenhard, B., and Becker, T.S. (2009) Systematic human/zebrafish comparative identification of cis-regulatory activity around vertebrate developmental transcription factor genes. Developmental Biology. 327(2):526-540.


Tg(3Hsa.SOX3-gata2a:EGFP)bi81Tg

Tg(3Hsa.SOX3-gata2a:EGFP)bi81Tg

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 This construct contains the highly conserved noncoding element  "hs5" from the  regulatory region of the human SOX3 gene.


External Links:

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Lab or Origin: Tom Becker Lab

Expressed in: 

pineal, parapineal, pretectum, thalamus

 

Key Publications

 Navratilova, P., Fredman, D., Hawkins, T.A., Turner, K., Lenhard, B., and Becker, T.S. (2009) Systematic human/zebrafish comparative identification of cis-regulatory activity around vertebrate developmental transcription factor genes. Developmental Biology. 327(2):526-540.