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Multi-species atlas resolves an axolotl limb development and regeneration paradox

Zhong, Jixing  
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Aires, Rita
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Tsissios, Georgios  
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October 10, 2023
Nature Communications

Humans and other tetrapods are considered to require apical-ectodermal-ridge (AER) cells for limb development, and AER-like cells are suggested to be re-formed to initiate limb regeneration. Paradoxically, the presence of AER in the axolotl, a primary model organism for regeneration, remains controversial. Here, by leveraging a single-cell transcriptomics-based multi-species atlas, composed of axolotl, human, mouse, chicken, and frog cells, we first establish that axolotls contain cells with AER characteristics. Further analyses and spatial transcriptomics reveal that axolotl limbs do not fully re-form AER cells during regeneration. Moreover, the axolotl mesoderm displays part of the AER machinery, revealing a program for limb (re)growth. These results clarify the debate about the axolotl AER and the extent to which the limb developmental program is recapitulated during regeneration.|Single-cell transcriptomic cross-species comparison identifies critical limb developmental cell type apical-ectodermal ridge in the prime limb regeneration model axolotl, and its differential usage during amphibian limb regeneration.

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