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A Hypothesis for the Evolution of the Upper Layers of the Neocortex Through Co-Option of the Olfactory Cortex Developmental Program HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY published: 12 May 2015 doi: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00162 A hypothesis for the evolution of the upper layers of the neocortex through co-option of the olfactory cortex developmental program Federico Luzzati 1, 2* 1 Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology (DBIOS), University of Turin, Turin, Italy, 2 Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi, Orbassano, Truin, Italy The neocortex is unique to mammals and its evolutionary origin is still highly debated. The neocortex is generated by the dorsal pallium ventricular zone, a germinative domain that in reptiles give rise to the dorsal cortex. Whether this latter allocortical structure Edited by: contains homologs of all neocortical cell types it is unclear. Recently we described a Francisco Aboitiz, + + Pontificia Universidad Catolica de population of DCX /Tbr1 cells that is specifically associated with the layer II of higher Chile, Chile order areas of both the neocortex and of the more evolutionary conserved piriform Reviewed by: cortex. In a reptile similar cells are present in the layer II of the olfactory cortex and Loreta Medina, the DVR but not in the dorsal cortex. These data are consistent with the proposal that Universidad de Lleida, Spain Gordon M. Shepherd, the reptilian dorsal cortex is homologous only to the deep layers of the neocortex while Yale University School of Medicine, the upper layers are a mammalian innovation. Based on our observations we extended USA Fernando Garcia-Moreno, these ideas by hypothesizing that this innovation was obtained by co-opting a lateral University of Oxford, UK and/or ventral pallium developmental program. Interestingly, an analysis in the Allen brain *Correspondence: atlas revealed a striking similarity in gene expression between neocortical layers II/III Federico Luzzati, and piriform cortex. We thus propose a model in which the early neocortical column Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology (DBIOS), University originated by the superposition of the lateral olfactory and dorsal cortex. This model is of Turin, Via Accademia Albertina 13, consistent with the fossil record and may account not only for the topological position 10123 Turin, Italy [email protected] of the neocortex, but also for its basic cytoarchitectural and hodological features. This idea is also consistent with previous hypotheses that the peri-allocortex represents the Specialty section: more ancient neocortical part. The great advances in deciphering the molecular logic This article was submitted to Evolutionary Psychology and of the amniote pallium developmental programs will hopefully enable to directly test our Neuroscience, hypotheses in the next future. a section of the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience Keywords: neocortex evolution, piriform cortex, pallium, upper layers, cell type homology, spatial patterning, temporal patterning, doublecortin Received: 01 January 2015 Accepted: 20 April 2015 Published: 12 May 2015 Introduction Citation: Luzzati F (2015) A hypothesis for the The Neocortex is a pallial structure that is divided in multiple sub-regions and is made by six evolution of the upper layers of the neocortex through co-option of the layers of distinct neuronal types. Despite more than a century of intense research and speculation, olfactory cortex developmental the evolutionary origin of this brain region is still unclear (Reiner, 2000; Butler et al., 2011; program. Front. Neurosci. 9:162. Aboitiz and Zamorano, 2013; Medina et al., 2013). Early work of Karten identified neuronal doi: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00162 types in the hyperpallium/dorsal cortex and dorsal ventricular ridge (DVR) of sauropsids that Frontiers in Neuroscience | www.frontiersin.org 1 May 2015 | Volume 9 | Article 162 Luzzati Neocortical upper layers evolution show patterns of connections similar to neurons of the with structurally and functionally conserved regions receiving mammalian neocortex (Karten, 1969, 2013; Butler, 1994). In olfactory and pheromonal information (olfactory cortex and particular the hyperpallium/dorsal cortex has been shown cortical/medial amygdala respectively). These studies strongly to receive visual and somatosensory information from suggests that the neocortex is homologous, as a field, only to lemno-thalamic nuclei and may thus be homologous to the the hyperpallium/dorsal cortex while the DVR is homologous visual and somatosensory cortex of mammals, while the DVR to the amygdala, that also receives auditory and collo-thalamic receive collo-thalamic auditory and visual projections and may visual projections, the claustrum and the entopeduncular nucleus be homologous to regions receiving similar projections in the (Bruce and Neary, 1995; Striedter, 1997; Puelles et al., 2000; temporal neocortex (Karten, 1969, 2013; Desan, 1984; Butler, Puelles, 2001; Butler and Molnár, 2002; Bruce, 2007; Medina 1994; Butler et al., 2011). et al., 2013). Nonetheless, subsequent work showed that during early development pallial progenitors of all tetrapods are regionalized into at least four conserved domains, referred as medial Organization of Dorsal Pallial Derivatives in (MP), dorsal (DP), lateral (LP), and ventral (VP) pallium, Mammals and Reptiles that give rise to distinct radially migrating glutamatergic neurons (Fernandez et al., 1998; Puelles et al., 2000; Brox It is generally accepted that in the reptilian ancestor of mammals et al., 2004). The neocortex is generated by DP progenitors the medial, dorsal and lateral cortices were laminated but that in sauropsids give rise only to the hyperpallium (in were made only by three layers, an organization that is also birds) and the dorsal cortex (in reptiles; Figure 1A). By called allocortex (Figure 1B; Nieuwenhuys, 1994; Reiner, 2000; contrast the DVR is generated by LP and VP progenitors that Shepherd, 2011; Fournier et al., 2015). In mammals, this type of in mammals give rise to claustro-amygdalar nuclei together cortex is still present in two structurally and functionally well FIGURE 1 | Development and evolution of dorsal pallial derivatives reduced number of cells in an outside-in sequence. The migration of in amniotes. (A) Spatial patterning mechanisms subdivide the immature neuroblasts is indicated by a dashed red arrows. Please note embryonic pallial progenitors in at least four domains: Medial pallium that, along with our theory, in (B,C) we used the same color code for (MP, yellow), dorsal pallium (DP, pink), lateral pallium (LP, violet) and the mammalian DL and reptilian dorsal cortex neurons. Nonetheless, it is ventral pallium (VP, cyan). The brain regions produced by each domain important to note that the precise correspondence between layer II and are shown in a mammal (left) and a reptile (right) with the same color III neurons of the dorsal cortex and layer V and VI of the neocortex is code. (B) Schematic representation of the organization of the cellular not known. (D) Models of the evolution of the principal neurons of the layers and main input and output projections in the neocortex (left) and neocortex. Each color represent a set of gene modules specifying a in the reptilian dorsal cortex (right). (C) Development of dorsal pallium particular neuronal types in the modern neocortex (right). Three different glutamatergic neurons in mammals and reptiles. In the neocortex the possibile pattern of expression of these gene modules in cells of the same progenitor produces multiple cell types in an inside-out sequence. dorsal cortex of the stem amniote are shown (left). Abbreviations: HIP, In the reptilian dorsal cortex, the dorsal pallium progenitors produce a hippocampus; MC, medial cortec; LC, lateral cortex; PC, piriform cortex. Frontiers in Neuroscience | www.frontiersin.org 2 May 2015 | Volume 9 | Article 162 Luzzati Neocortical upper layers evolution conserved regions that border the neocortex: the hippocampus, these considerations, three major mechanisms have been recently a MP derivative, and the piriform cortex, a LP derivative that proposed to underlie the evolution of new cell types from a receive a direct input from the olfactory bulb. In the allocortex precursor cell in a given lineage: (1) Divergence of functions, in the more superficial layer I is a plexiform layer where extrinsic which two sister cell types inherit the same gene modules and and intrinsic projections meet the apical dendrites of pyramidal gradually modify them with time, (2) Segregation of functions, neurons whose cell bodies settle in layers II and III (Haberly, in which two sister cell types lose complementary parts of the 1990; Ulinsky, 1990). In general, the cellular density is higher in gene modules of the former precursor cells. (3) Co-option of layer II than in layer III particularly in the piriform/lateral cortex functions, in which the precursor cell co-opts the gene modules and the hippocampus. The neocortex shares with allocortex the of an unrelated cell type (Arendt, 2008; Achim and Arendt, basic microcircuits, but it stands out for the higher number 2014). It is to note that the term co-option generally refers to of neurons and layers (Shepherd, 2011; Fournier et al., 2015). the acquisition of new roles by pre-existing characters (True In many respects the neocortex can be described as a double and Carroll, 2002). In the specific case of the gene regulatory allocortex, with two couples of pyramidal layers, namely upper networks controlling cell type specification, co-option may occur (II,III,IV; UL) and deeper (V,VI, DL), each below a plexiform for cis- and trans- acting transcriptional
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