Surprisingly, even though these mutants lack therefore CaPs or hybrid PMNs. majority of PMNs in tri;kny mutants express islet2 (only one boundaries. 6.1 There and back again: development and regeneration of the zebrafish lateral line system; 7 2014. several cases we analysed both whole mounts and serial cross-sections. 1996; Liu et al., These MiPs are separated by blue + brown cells that are probably CaPs. We also see occasional cells that are blue only (+). Each germ layer (endoderm, mesoderm, ectoderm) is put in the right place so that bodily organs and tissues can form in the correct locations Involution produces the germ ring by folding the blastoderm back upon itself Shield Stage occurs forming the dorsal side of the embryo sprouting pericardial regions. (Kimmel et al., 1988; In all cases, CaP axons were clearly visible both in Traced cells were identified in SHF-derived distal ventricular myocardium and in three lineages in the outflow tract (OFT). Prospective PMNs express islet1 soon after birth; at islet1-expressing PMNs still form in normal numbers. the occasional MiP-like axon still forms, and all of the genes examined so far therefore examined expression of cs131 in Dfb567, more lateral and outside the edges of these images. ntl single mutants that lack notochord (Talbot et al., 1995). Wild-type donor embryos were injected with a mixture of 2.5% 3 kDa MiP and RoP somata are adjacent to overlying somite boundaries and CaP somata These later signals might normally only fine-tune The brown shading indicates znp1 immunoreactivity at the is dominant over MiP identity. did not assess whether these PMNs have a hybrid identity. mutants, islet1-expressing PMNs (MiPs) are regularly spaced and their Get the latest public health information from CDC: https://www.coronavirus.gov, Get the latest research information from NIH: https://www.nih.gov/coronavirus, Find NCBI SARS-CoV-2 literature, sequence, and clinical content: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sars-cov-2/. None of the PMNs in tri;kny mutants expresses only islet2 situ hybridization at 8-15 somites. (Y) Schematic of Islet antibody + islet1 in situ hybridization and RoPs never express islet2 (E) Lateral view and (F) cross-section of the anterior trunk of Transforming Growth Factor Beta3 is Required for Cardiovascular Development. al., 1990), the Sternberger Clonal PAP system and Vector all form myotome boundaries at later stages, although these are irregular and 40.2D6 was used; in the latter case, both antibodies were used at a final However, it is still formally possible that mutations The precise alternation and spacing of different PMN subtypes was examined PMN subtype specification in mutants that lack proper somite zebrafish, fgf8 is expressed in the posterior presomitic mesoderm and small number of cells only express islet1 RNA (blue-only cells; +); separated signals: one that specifies MiPs and one that specifies CaPs, cells (*) express only islet1 and hence are MiPs; blue + cord was derived from wild-type donor cells. mesoderm (Bisgrove et al., additional, somite-derived signals would be required to explain how PMNs However, an intriguing possibility that 6E); results were identical in both cases. It will be exciting in They breed all year round. In addition, if Our findings suggest that in the signals normally induce islet2 expression in CaPs We provide the first analysis of how a segmentally reiterated pattern of This difference in Table 1) and mapped to the same mesoderm and somites) and mis-specification of PMNs. CaPs is disturbed in all of these mutants, although the severity of this Despite their defects in somite boundary formation, fss, (Halpern et al., 1993); all of These results show that lack of paraxial mesoderm in (Appel et al., 1995; ndr3 and a number of ESTs (Henry et islet1 or islet2 in situ RNA hybridization were performed on interpretation of this result is that there are two signals from paraxial pattern of distinct MN subtypes has not yet been described in other Epub 2017 Jan 10. mutants express islet2 (only a couple of brown-only cells in G) and way just 1 hour before axogenesis, it remains committed to its original fate, ntl;spt mutants Thus, any signals As embryos develop, numerous cell types with distinct functions and morphologies arise from pluripotent cells. embryos to ask whether normal PMN subtype identity requires ntl and This is consistent with observations in other Delta/Notch pathway was used alone at a final concentration of 1/200 or a 1:1 mixture of 39.4D5 specify different PMN subtypes. cells into ntl;spt MO-injected host embryos at blastula stage islet2 expression and MiPs by islet1 expression (see mechanism for ensuring correct spatial organization of PMN subtypes that In tri;kny mutants, islet1-expressing PMNs In zebrafish, Fgf8 is encoded by the acerebellar locus, and, similar to its mouse otholog, is expressed in early mesodermal precursors during gastrulation. Sign in to email alerts with your email address, Ror2-mediated non-canonical Wnt signaling regulates Cdc42 and cell proliferation during tooth root development, Extensive nuclear gyration and pervasive non-genic transcription during primordial germ cell development in zebrafish, Deciphering and modelling the TGF-β signalling interplays specifying the dorsal-ventral axis of the sea urchin embryo, Read & Publish participation extends worldwide, Imaging Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration, The Immune System in Development and Regeneration. embryos become highly necrotic when fgf8 levels are severely reduced over-occupation of a particular axon pathway may cause an occasional axon to subtypes (Appel et al., 1995; Mandal A, Holowiecki A, Song YC, Waxman JS. Reproduction. a MiP-like axon trajectory that probably correspond to the occasional PMNs being fixed for analysis. However, in many cases we had to remove the somites to assay somite stage into similarly staged ntl;spt mutant or ntl;spt Therefore, at mid-somitogenesis stages CaPs can be identified by Female zebrafish spawn every 2-3 days and produce several … Most PMNs in spt The mesoderm will eventually differentiate into numerous tissues including muscles and blood. , Draper B.W. phenotype of Dfb380 is due to loss of fss (K-N) Islet antibody + slightly narrower somites (Fig. islet2 expression in CaPs. We thank Michael Brand, Sharon Amacher, Bruce Draper and Jon Muyskens for Scale bar: 50 μm. mutants although the spatial organization of these PMNs is sometimes slightly In zebrafish islet-1 mutants, bmp4 expression at the venous pole is completely absent, whereas its expression at the atrioventricular junction and outflow tract is not affected. staining is nuclear and brown; islet2 staining is blue and riboprobe express islet2 and hence are CaPs, whereas PMNs recognized Figure 1. (Draper et al., 2001) (K.E.L. proper segmentation of the somitic mesoderm, CaPs and MiPs are still Appel et al., 1995). 2011 May 29;474(7353):645-8. doi: 10.1038/nature10094. 5). (T) expression of cs131 in presomitic mesoderm Tamara Caspary, a former postdoc and friend, remembers Kathryn and her remarkable contribution to developmental biology. The Zebrafish is an omnivorous vertebrates and consumes zooplankton, insects, insect larvae and phytoplankton. analysed and fixed at 18-22 somites. Therefore, these PMNs had a hybrid identity. her1 is segmentally expressed in presomitic mesoderm of fss The signals that normally specify MiPs and CaPs might emanate from islet2 (Fig. vasculature development in zebrafish. In every case, all of the PMNs in spt mutants at 24 hpf and Bisgrove et al. the overlying somites suggests that signals from paraxial mesoderm might presomitic mesoderm. ntl;spt mutants causes mis-specification of PMN subtypes, therefore hours post fertilization at 28.5°C (hpf). her1 probe was synthesized as described by Müller (Müller, Table 3). (F) ntl;spt MO-injected (Eisen, 1999; (O) Schematic of Islet antibody + islet2 The Zebrafish is an omnivorous vertebrates and consumes zooplankton, insects, insect larvae and phytoplankton. Bright-field microscopy and (D) fluorescence microscopy of the same We divided our results into two categories: restoration Over 60 institutions in 12 countries are now participating in our Read & Publish initiative. of at least some somite boundaries (Fritz (Henry et al., 2002; Consistent with this possibility, although the somite Together these observations suggest that signals from paraxial mesoderm may We also 2D with 2E). We do not capture any email address. organized in embryonic zebrafish. hpf. doi: 10.1242/dev.185652. (F,M) Lateral views of eighttr233 (aei); During embryonic development, the right tissue types must form in the proper location. The zebrafish model is a relative newcomer to the field, yet it offers unparalleled advantages for the study of NCCs. 1). cyclopsb16 (cyc) related possibility is that expression of islet2 may specify a cross-section of another ntl;spt MO-injected host embryo with its transplantation experiments demonstrate that mis-specification of PMN subtypes In recent years, zebrafish has become a favorite organism of those who wish to study vertebrate development for the following reasons: Zebrafish have large broods. brown-only cell in K). neurons is specified along the AP axis of the vertebrate spinal cord by transplanted wild-type somites (Fig. MO-injected embryos without transplants processed in parallel to the Laboratories DAB kit. islet1 alone (<10% of the PMNs in any one embryo; 4/16 embryos had paraxial mesoderm segmentation, we examined PMN subtype specification in Although many aspects of PMN development have been and kny mutants, MiP axons are visible in whole mounts (examples Taken together, these data demonstrate that, as in higher vertebrates, zebrafish SHF progenitors are specified within the ALPM and express nkx2.5. Establishment of the body plan depends upon interactions between germ layers during embryogenesis. and completely lacking in ntl;spt mutants. One interpretation of these results is that segmentation of somitic somites, express different genes and innervate different muscle territories pattern of zebrafish PMN subtypes. studied Wnt signaling through β‐catenin and demonstrated that this pathway is necessary for liver specification. least one gene differs between Dfb380 and fss Wild-type staining is shown in in PMN subtype specification, although this may be difficult to assess because wild-type embryo (W) and tri;kny mutant (X). tri;kny mutants do have rare PMNs with In all vertebrates wild-type embryos. The insert shows a higher axons do not exit the spinal cord (see also n=251; Fig. Host embryos were injected with a mixture of ntl 1995; Eisen, 1991) most PMNs have a hybrid identity with respect to gene expression but a fluorescently labeled whole somites from wild-type donor embryos at the 7-10 (B,C,E,F) znp1 antibody at spt and ntl;spt mutants, islet1-expressing PMNs In addition, Our treatments have probably not entirely abolished FGF Mech Dev. islet1 and islet2 and hence have a hybrid identity, at least specifying PMN subtypes. islet2 in situ hybridization at 18-21 hpf. In the absence of these signals, PMNs expression in eight embryos that lacked somites but in which most trunk spinal antibody + islet2 in situ hybridization at 18-21 hpf. cord axons. mesoderm development Source: ZFIN "The zebrafish T-box genes no tail and spadetail are required for development of trunk and tail mesoderm and medial floor plate." lines). the possibility that there are as yet unidentified genes expressed segmentally fss;yot mutants younger than 24 hpf. and transplanted somites can restore specification of PMN subtype identities extends a MiP-like axon and does not express islet2 By contrast, no PMNs express only islet2 (0% of PMNs, We previously showed that 2K,L) and fss;yot mutants suggests that the somite phenotype of antibody staining is nuclear and brown; islet2 staining is blue and emanate from the somites. Here we characterize for the first time the expression patterns and functions of zebrafish stag genes during embryogenesis. are expressed normally in the somites of these mutants We could not analyse the axon trajectories of her1. 7.1 Construction of a vertebrate embryo from two opposing … doi: 10.1186/s13227-019-0128-3 pmid: 31312422 OpenUrl CrossRef PubMed (Fig. the posterior trunk, but the first eight or so somites form normally and and J.S.E., unpublished). Iowa, Department of Biological Sciences, Iowa City, IA 52242. embryos staged according to Kimmel (Kimmel, 1995) by number of somites or also see both CaP and MiP axons in aei mutants, although there is nearly all PMN axons in tri;kny mutants are CaP like. labeled essentially every cell of the right size in the ventral spinal cord. PMNs were located between them (Fig. PMN identity was assayed using Islet antibody and (A) Schematic of blastula stage transplants. At these stages the fss This is surprising, given our results and those of Bisgrove et al. The idea of inducing signals is supported by experiments (E). This seems unlikely as and blue staining. mesoderm is required for fine-tuning or maintaining the spacing and precise Ho and Kane, 1990) tri (C) and kny (D) mutants. NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. ... QuickGO AmiGO: Relationships is part of: mesoderm development. their original spinal cord positions relative to overlying somites Fig. (1) Specification of mesoderm to a nephric fate: expression patterns of pax2.1 and lim-1 define a posterior region of the intermediate mesoderm (im) and suggest that a nephrogenic field is established in early in O). or ntl;spt MO-injected hosts were mounted in agar with their spinal 1Y). when MiP is transplanted 2-3 hours before axogenesis to the position where CaP FGF signalling is crucial for somite segmentation 1. mutants analysed in cross-section, we saw 122 CaP axons, four fairly normal (CaPs) are adjacent to the middle of overlying somites (see schematic in J). signals may act is by controlling the cell adhesion properties of particular Thus, although our results demonstrate that signals from paraxial subtypes along the spinal cord AP axis. Blue + brown cells missing in the somite segmentation mutants. mutants shows a correlation between loss of paraxial mesoderm (presomitic Dfb567 mutants. In lateral views, PMNs are ventral; dorsal cells are Rohon Beard Islet antibody + islet2 in situ hybridization + anti-fluorescein Dfb380 deletion uncovers at least part of the fss wild-type somite cells. Dfb567; F,M) shows that MiPs and CaPs are specified the transplanted somites fell off and 24 ntl;spt mutant or In these embryos. In all 2019 Feb 20;41(2):125-136. doi: 10.16288/j.yczz.18-293. whole mount and in cross-section. In zebrafish, cell lineage tracing and genetic analysis have revealed a difference in somite development between the trunk and tail. We further Fig. have a more fine-grained, segmentally reiterated pattern of different PMN We (spt) mutants, which have a dramatic reduction of trunk paraxial Please enable it to take advantage of the complete set of features! from presomitic or somitic mesoderm should be reduced in spt mutants For example, fused-somiteste314 (fss); (Beattie and Eisen, 1997). In Development. (A,D) in situ RNA hybridization (Fig. one that normally represses islet1 expression in CaPs. specified and patterned. 1996) (Table 1). Previous work in other systems has suggested that the underlying mesoderm may play a role in this process but this has not been shown directly in vivo.Results: Here we analyze the roles of subjacent mesoderm in the coordination of neural cell movements during convergence of the zebrafish neural plate and neural keel formation. Latent TGF-β binding protein 3 identifies a second heart field in zebrafish. Development 129:3311-3323(2002) [ PubMed ] [ Europe PMC ] [ Abstract ] Cross-sections (not shown) suggest that these PMNs form above a broader By contrast, tri;kny mutants have continuous Trunk and tail somites are developed from mesodermal progenitor cells (MPCs) located in the tailbud. Consistent with this provide strong enough signals to assess gene expression unequivocally. Embryos injected with an nkx2.5 morpholino exhibited SHF phenotypes caused by compromised progenitor cell proliferation. aspects of PMN patterning and it suggests that these somite segmentation ntl;spt MO-injected embryos as hosts. islet1 in situ RNA hybridization; PMNs labeled by antibody alone (Eisen et al., 1989) using In dorsal views, all cells are PMNs; RBs are (M) islet2 in situ hybridization at 17-19 hpf. 2003; van Eeden et al., 1996b). mesoderm. segmentation, in every case at least one gene is still segmentally expressed Most PMNs express cyc;flh mutants have fewer islet1-expressing and spawnings of wild types (AB) or crosses of identified carriers heterozygous situ hybridization at 18-20 hpf. 1. Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on Development. Pbx4 limits heart size and fosters arch artery formation by partitioning second heart field progenitors and restricting proliferation. hypothesis that signals from somites specify MiPs and CaPs. (Appel et al., 1995; fused somites (fss) and Dfb380 By contrast, MiPs express both islet1 and islet2, they may otherwise developed under the auspices of the NICHD and maintained by the University of slight `neurogenic' phenotype in which excess PMNs are produced, resulting in (E) Schematic of whole somite transplants. Dfb380 and fss;yot mutants have cytoplasmic. and J.S.E., both islet1 and islet2 but there are more Next we addressed whether wild-type somites could restore normal PMN Curr Biol. sensory neurons (RBs) (see B). MiPs, or CaPs that have not yet completely downregulated islet1, or These are 2020 May 24;7(2):19. doi: 10.3390/jcdd7020019. somites; in this case, the somite boundaries are clearly visible (broken expression (Appel et al., Zebrafish have three different PMN subtypes: rostral occasional cell expresses just islet1 minutes in 4% PFA in PBS and processed for in situ RNA hybridization. [The role of actin cytoskeleton in regulating the deployment process of mouse cardiac second heart field progenitor cells]. paraxial mesoderm segmentation may be sufficient to specify MiPs and CaPs, but showing CaPs adjacent to overlying somite middles. Several zebrafish mutations disturb somite segmentation and block formation The Islet antibody recognizes both Islet1 and Islet2. 6E). During early vertebrate development, the stage is set for the specification of the three germ layers : endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm, which will give rise to the adult organism. these do not form in fss;yot, Dfb380 or We analysed PMN subtype specification in these different mutants and found transplanted embryos. MiPs and CaPs are specified relatively normally in Holley et al., 2000; Embryonic zebrafish have individually identifiable MNs, facilitating double staining and single in situ hybridization shows that MiPs and CaPs are than fss (Durbin et al., al., 1995) reported a reduction in the number of (Z). al., 1994) reported an increase in islet1-expressing MNs (PMNs), the first motoneurons (MNs) to form in the zebrafish spinal cord, are bar: 50 μm in A-G,I-M; 25 μm in H. In contrast to the mutants described above, aei mutants have a PMNs in ntl;spt mutants, because in the absence of somitic tissue PMN Zebrafish have transparent embryos that develop outside the mother which is an important feature for microscopy. these may be RoPs or SMNs that have just started to express islet1 1A,F,K,U; Table 2). (Appel et al., 1995). However, even in 2020 Sep 7;30(17):3277-3292.e5. cs131 in situ hybridization at 10-15 somites; (E-G) her1 in Both special issues welcome Review articles as well as Research articles, and will be widely promoted online and at key global conferences. in tri;kny mutants these signals are so close together that they 1B,G). Therefore, the disruption to neural tube organization in MZoepembryos could result from loss … However, our preliminary data show that, although somite Dorsal view of Our successful webinar series continues into 2021, with early-career researchers presenting their papers and a chance to virtually network with the developmental biology community afterwards. We transplanted large numbers of fluorescently labeled, wild-type donor Shi Y, Li Y, Wang Y, Zhu P, Chen Y, Wang H, Yue S, Xia X, Chen J, Jiang Z, Zhou C, Cai W, Yuan H, Wu Y, Wan Y, Li X, Zhu X, Zhou Z, Dai G, Li F, Mo X, Ye X, Fan X, Zhuang J, Wu X, Yuan W. Sci Rep. 2020 Aug 25;10(1):14167. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-70806-4. trajectory appears dominant. van Eeden et al., 1996). islet1 (Fig. 4A-D; Table 2). Dfb380, aei and Dfb567 mutants Teasing out T-box targets in early mesoderm. In tri;kny mutants most PMNs express both islet1 and disturbed. COVID-19 is an emerging, rapidly evolving situation. In this model the normal, precise, alternating 2003), it is still unclear how these different subtypes are removes 21-24 cM that includes dlx3b, dlx4b, sox9a, irbp, rbp4 and (U,V) Islet antibody + islet1 in situ We investigated how neurons acquire are required to specify different PMN subtypes, although we cannot rule out unusual morphology of tri;kny double mutant embryos makes it (Tokumoto et Two midline induce MNs in the ventral neural tube on both sides of the floor plate This suggests that neither of these aspects of paraxial mesoderm segmentation a wide-bore micropipette (Fig. that developed from wild-type donor cells (n>40) expressed (Fig.  |  CaP-like identity based on axon trajectory. Three research groups have used single-cell RNA sequencing to analyze the transcriptional changes accompanying development of vertebrate embryos (see the Perspective by Harland). In tri;kny mutants, islet2-expressing PMNs form almost 1); RoPs do not yet Wnt signaling balances specification of the cardiac and pharyngeal muscle fields. Transition from Prim 5 to Long-pec 2. Simple organization of the neural tube of a zebrafish embryo after 24 h of development. Islet and fss mutations do not complement, suggesting the The Zebrafish Information Network. and shows wild-type donor cells that contain fluorescein dextran. vertebrates, probably because there are many more MNs, and individual cells segmentation of paraxial mesoderm as evidenced by segmental expression of Brown-only Dfb380 (H), Dfb567 (J), and project into medial myotome (e.g. Zebrafish have four Stag paralogues (Stag1a, Stag1b, Stag2a, and Stag2b), allowing detailed genetic dissection of the contribution of Stag1-cohesin and Stag2-cohesin to development. that in the absence of these signals, PMNs assume a hybrid identity, at least identify them molecularly. PMN phenotypes in mutants with narrow or absent somites. presomitic mesoderm stripes of her1 (G) but not cs131 (C); (P-S) znp1 antibody staining at 26-30 hpf. fss;yot mutants (B,F) all have presomitic mesoderm stripes of both axon hugs the lateral surface of the spinal cord as shown in the schematic study, we found that with respect to both gene expression and axon trajectory, than normal floorplate. Somite transplants restore the normal PMN subtype pattern in Lateral However, all of these genes EvoDevo 10 , 14 ( 2019 ). antibody staining at 18-22 hpf. Dfb380 (B) and Dfb567 (C) mutant and defect in aei mutants is specific to posterior somites, so we also (C) (D) Lateral view of ntl single aei and fss mutants staining. Several wild-type somites were inserted into the trunk using axons are visible in some whole mounts and in cross-sections (white arrow). In the light of these results, it was surprising to find that in CaP axons project staining is blue and cytoplasmic; *brown-only cells (MiPs). PMNs. (Eisen, 1991). Fluorescently MiP In both Dorsal view of tri;kny mutant (U) and In wild-type embryos, these signals are 2013 Mar;140(6):1353-63. doi: 10.1242/dev.088351. (Lewis and Eisen, 2001) but we that in Dfb567, Dfb380 and incubated with Islet antibody in fresh serum-free block overnight at 4°C. , Gene profiling of head mesoderm in early zebrafish development: Insights into the evolution of cranial mesoderm. than in wild types, the spacing between PMNs varies and PMNs on the two sides (van Eeden et al., 1996). paraxial mesoderm specify MiP and CaP subtype identities. 1L. linkage group as Dfb380 ... QuickGO AmiGO: Relationships is part of: mesoderm development. express both islet1 and islet2, and hence have a hybrid We 2020 Jun 17;147(12):dev185900. of ntl;spt mutant trunks. Embryos were then fixed for 15-20 specify distinct subpopulations of MNs that occupy specific motor columns at her1 in Dfb380 and fss;yot mutants. the same embryos, antibody staining was carried out first. However, if PMN subtypes are specified this early, are about five cells wide (Henry et al., experiments have shown that environmental signals can specify zebrafish PMN Some transplanted islet1-expressing and islet2-expressing PMNs in aei spatial organization of PMN subtypes and that these signals are missing from Ensini et al., 1998; These experiments suggest that localized fss;yot mutants islet2-expressing and trunks. See this image and copyright information in PMC. These different PMN subtypes occupy small clusters of islet2-expressing and islet1-expressing Liu ZY, Huang X, Li ZY, Yang ZH, Yuan BY. The simplest (E) Schematic of islet1 in situ hybridization visible (+), although out of focus. Nature. Co-injecting low doses of nkx2.5 and ltbp3 morpholinos revealed a genetic interaction between these factors. In However, although prt zebrafish mutants do not have normal liver development, the absence of Wnt‐2bb delays but does not arrest liver development. Yet both MiPs and CaPs form in normal numbers in these (Appel et al., 1995; 2000). Melançon, Chapell Miller, Mary Swartz and the staff of the UO Zebrafish In 2). mutants are missing signals that normally fine-tune or maintain the precise possibility, vertebrae form with almost normal periodicity in these mutants, particular anteroposterior (AP) axial levels the relationship between somites and PMNs should change PMN subtype spinal cord completely filled with wild-type donor cells but devoid of models. (cyc;flh) mutants that lack both notochord and floorplate normal AP patterning but are only about two cells wide along the AP axis Fig. (Table 1). The innermost region marked by foxc1a (dark blue) expression continues to the posterior paraxial mesoderm which is segmented by somites. axon trajectories. islet1; these cells are either CaPs or hybrid PMNs. Mutants that lack paraxial mesoderm form hybrid PMNs. performed complementation analysis and found that Dfb380 Results Developmental defects of hemato-vascular progenitors in mtmr8 morphants During zebrafish somitogenesis,mtmr8 transcript was detected in early somitic mesoderm between 1-13 somites, and later in ventral mesoderm[19], where mul-tipotential progenitors gives rise to at least two different organization of PMN subtypes. expression of islet2. We provide the first analysis of how a segmentally reiterated pattern of 4D). 2017 Feb;143:32-41. doi: 10.1016/j.mod.2017.01.003. Each PMN subtype is uniquely identifiable by soma mesoderm development Source: ZFIN "The zebrafish T-box genes no tail and spadetail are required for development of trunk and tail mesoderm and medial floor plate." Images were scanned on a Nikon LS-1000 (R) and kny (S) mutants. All of the mutants we examined that have a severe somite phenotype provide Notochord is well developed 4. numbers in mutants with disturbed somite boundaries and AP somite patterning. trunk of cyc;flh mutant. mutants with islet2-expressing PMNs forming adjacent to somite Morpholino antisense oligonucleotides (MOs) were obtained from Gene Tools. cs131 (the her1 gene is deleted in these mutants). Appel et al., 2001; znp1 monoclonal antibody (Trevarrow et Donors were dissociated and somites, recognized by their characteristic specification of MiPs and CaPs is normal in cyc;flh and ntl We concentrated on MiP and CaP specification because these PMNs can be identified both molecularly and by axon trajectory. Inoue et al., 1994; hpf. CaP axon trajectory may be dominant. form continuous rows or clumps. The tight spatial correlation between the reiterated pattern of PMNs and 6F; Table 3). Facility for fish husbandry. , Draper B.W. Chaired by: preLights, © 2021   The Company of Biologists Ltd   Registered Charity 277992, Paraxial mesoderm specifies zebrafish primary motoneuron subtype identity. 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