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Neurogenesis in mushroom bodies is studied in 12 species of the higher dipterans. A significant difference in the number of neuroblasts forming mushroom bodies is found. In the majority of species studied, Kenyon cells are formed by four solitary neuroblasts. Among six calliphorid species, the number of neuroblasts increases up to 10–15 (mean 12.6) in each mushroom body in Calliphora vicina only. In young pupae of Muscina stabulans and M. livida, four polyneuroblastic prolipherative centers occur instead of solitary neuroblasts. These centers disintegrate later into numerous solitary neuroblasts. A hypothesis on the origin of the polyneuroblastic structure of mushroom bodies found in C. vicina and, earlier, in Musca domestica, is proposed.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Panov, 2011, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Biologicheskaya, 2011, No. 1, pp. 90–95.
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Panov, A.A. Diversity in neuroblast number forming mushroom bodies of the higher dipterans (Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera Cyclorrhapha). Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 38, 77–81 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359011010092
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