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Biol. Bull. 215: 280-294. (December 2008)
© 2008 Marine Biological Laboratory

Development of the 5-HT-like Immunoreactive Pedal Plexus in the Pond Snail Lymnaea stagnalis appressa

Roger D. Longley*

Friday Harbor Laboratories, 620 University Road, Friday Harbor, Washington 98250

* E-mail: rlongley{at}rockisland.com

In many gastropods, a serotonin-like immunoreactive axon plexus lies over ciliary cells on the pedal sole. The origin and function of axons in this plexus is uncertain. By using serotonin antibodies in the direct-developing embryo of the pond snail, the axons that initially form this plexus were traced from seven large neurons in each pedal ganglion. Soon after metamorphosis begins, the first immunoreactive pedal ganglion neuron sends multiple branched neurites to lie directly over pedal sole ciliary cells. By 70% of the 11 days required for hatching, axons from the seven neuron pairs form a plexus over ciliary cells in the whole sole. The axon from each of the seven neurons is guided to a specific area of the pedal plexus where ciliary cells are developing. Axons from two pairs of these neurons, which form the pedal plexus in the posterior part of the foot, are in the unpaired nerve that comes from the pedal ganglia ventral commissure. It is likely that these two developing neuron pairs are homologs of the two neuron pairs in Lymnaea stagnalis that have axons in this ventral commissure nerve. Identification of these neurons and the other five neuron pairs with axons in the pedal plexus will provide a basis for future studies of the relation between the plexus and pedal ciliary locomotion.

Abbreviations: 5-HT-LIR, 5-HT-like immunoreactive • e1-e7, 5-HT-LIR neurons • ipn, inferior pedal nerve • mpn, medial pedal nerve • ppc, primordial pedal plate cilia • pc, prototrochal cilia • spn, superior pedal nerve • vpn, ventromedian pedal nerve






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