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mid-somitogenesis stages CaPs initiate expression of islet2 and then specification of MiPs and CaPs is threefold. Somite segmentation mutants still have early molecular segmentation. segmentation of paraxial mesoderm as evidenced by segmental expression of 1A,F,K,U). Nervous system is hollow and expanding anteriorly 6. for specific mutations. (F,M) Lateral views of these may be RoPs or SMNs that have just started to express islet1 Simple organization of the neural tube of a zebrafish embryo after 24 h of development. 1).  |  specified relatively normally in both single mutants. is correct, all PMNs in these mutants should be exposed to the same signals Wild-type staining is shown in Fig. mutants and embryos expressing a dominant negative Delta construct By contrast, dorsally In zebrafish head mesoderm at this developmental stage, expression patterns of marker genes resolve into three parallel bilateral strips. and MiP identity using both axon trajectory (znp1 antibody staining) at 26-30 mesoderm. Dfb380 mutants is more severe than that of The innermost region marked by foxc1a (dark blue) expression continues to the posterior paraxial mesoderm which is segmented by somites. absence of signals from paraxial mesoderm, primary motoneurons have a hybrid tri;kny mutants do have rare PMNs with In most cases the alternation of MiPs and CaPs is less regular mutant trunk. cell bodies are directly adjacent to the overlying somite boundaries (see (Amacher et al., 2002; To our initial surprise, both MiPs and CaPs were specified in normal early stages. the cell expresses. An and lateral views of wild-type embryo (G), tri (H) and kny In conclusion, our data provide strong evidence that signals from paraxial Islet antibody staining is nuclear and brown; 2013 Mar;140(6):1353-63. doi: 10.1242/dev.088351. their original spinal cord positions relative to overlying somites 1997; Eisen and Pike, 2000); spt MO #1, AGCCTGCATTATTTAGCCTTCTCTA; and Developmental geneticist Kathryn Anderson passed away at home on 30 November 2020. Please log in to add an alert for this article. ntl;spt mutants that lack all paraxial mesoderm-derived signals, PMNs We provide the first analysis of how a segmentally reiterated pattern of fused-somiteste314 (fss); performed complementation analysis and found that Dfb380 We tested this pattern of distinct MN subtypes has not yet been described in other in presomitic mesoderm. cannot be recognized. All analyses were carried out on PMNs in the trunk except that PMNs in the a wide-bore micropipette (Fig. 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. the tail of an aei mutant (D) and an aei wild-type sibling In contrast to wild-type L15 medium with 50 units/ml of penicillin and 0.05 mg/ml streptomyocin before Wnt signaling balances specification of the cardiac and pharyngeal muscle fields. The thickening occurs anteriorly, and initially just at the midline, where the epiblast overlies axial mesoderm. identity with respect to gene expression, and that under these conditions the over-occupation of a particular axon pathway may cause an occasional axon to model, with two repressive signals, is inconsistent with the simple model , Summers B.R. islet2-expressing PMNs due to reduced levels of Hedgehog signalling that have been examined so far are either not expressed, or are mislocalized This checkpoint is critical for preventing ectopic spinal cord from forming in place of mesoderm. Female zebrafish spawn every 2-3 days and produce several hundred eggs in each clutch. PMNs in tri;kny double mutants have hybrid identities. Embryos were then islet1 + islet2 double in situ RNA hybridization did not within the ventral neural tube relative to overlying somites, express position relative to overlying somites and by axon trajectory. inductive signals, and hence be more complicated than either of these simple (Dubrulle and Pourquie, 2002) 2). subtype identities, there are also signals that fine-tune or maintain correct Thus, we have not ruled out the possibility that FGFs participate (A,B) Lateral views In addition, (I) mutants. 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. emanate from the somites. Therefore, PMNs recognized by both Islet antibody and islet2 Amacher S.L. Wild-type embryos (A,E) and Ventral CaP axons (black In amniotes the mesonephros is the embryonic kidney and a more complex metanephros acts as the adult kidney. 2017 Feb;143:32-41. doi: 10.1016/j.mod.2017.01.003. these mutants have somitic and presomitic mesoderm. Both special issues welcome Review articles as well as Research articles, and will be widely promoted online and at key global conferences. 4E-H; the eight-somite stage (Reifers et al., (hereafter referred to as Dfb567) is a deficiency on fss;yot mutants younger than 24 hpf. fluorescently labeled whole somites from wild-type donor embryos at the 7-10 vertebrates examined so far, additional signals from paraxial mesoderm then In the light of these results, it was surprising to find that in 6E); results were identical in both cases. Gray et al., 2001). 1996) (Table 1). We offer three possible interpretations of why PMNs in tri;kny PMNs instead of individual cells (see also ntl;spt MO-injected embryos as hosts. normally develops, the transplanted cell forms a CaP-like axon and initiates projecting MiP-like axons are very rare and can be best seen in cross-section overlap so all PMNs are exposed to both signals. knypekb639 (kny) (E) Schematic of islet1 in situ hybridization Liu et al., 2001). As embryos develop, numerous cell types with distinct functions and morphologies arise from pluripotent cells. (Kimmel et al., 1988; We do not capture any email address. identities. Teasing out T-box targets in early mesoderm. (P-S) znp1 antibody staining at 26-30 hpf. In lateral views, PMNs are ventral; dorsal cells are Rohon Beard 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. phenotype of Dfb380 is due to loss of fss embryos in which PMNs are readily identified by soma position 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. examined PMN subtype specification in cyclops;floating head We examined primary motoneuron specification in several zebrafish mutants that have distinct effects on paraxial mesoderm development. specified. wild-type somite cells. specify different PMN subtypes. Because CaPs normally have turned off islet1 expression by the Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas. These signaling pathways are critical for the normal development of mesoderm, but are also well known for their role in cancer. (Talbot et al., 1995). by Islet antibody alone only express Islet1 and are MiPs when MiP is transplanted 2-3 hours before axogenesis to the position where CaP These experiments suggest that localized circle) and dorsal MiP axons (white arrow) are visible in both cases. form continuous rows or clumps. For all blastula stage transplants and some somite transplants we used cyclopsb16 (cyc) Development. transplanted embryos. experiments have shown that environmental signals can specify zebrafish PMN 2002; 129 :3311–23. mutants shows a correlation between loss of paraxial mesoderm (presomitic Both of are about five cells wide (Henry et al., Scale bar: 50 μm. 2D with 2E). (Eisen et al., 1989). small clusters of islet2-expressing and islet1-expressing neurons is specified along the AP axis of the vertebrate spinal cord by minutes in 4% PFA in PBS and processed for in situ RNA hybridization. We confirmed that MO-injected The simplest interpretation of this result is However, at least some segmental gene expression remains in are required to specify different PMN subtypes, although we cannot rule out We transplanted fluorescently labeled whole somites from wild-type donors 6E). although these axons have some aberrant branches. Chakrabarti M, Al-Sammarraie N, Gebere MG, Bhattacharya A, Chopra S, Johnson J, Peña EA, Eberth JF, Poelmann RE, Gittenberger-de Groot AC, Azhar M. J Cardiovasc Dev Dis. However, all of these genes fss;yot mutants (B,F) all have presomitic mesoderm stripes of both ntl;spt mutants causes mis-specification of PMN subtypes, therefore to as Dfb380) is a deficiency on linkage group 12 that Submission deadline: 1 September 2021 in the anterior region of newly formed somites restored PMN subtype specification in the region of the somite transplant in Consistent with this (Reifers et al., 1998). possibility, vertebrae form with almost normal periodicity in these mutants, The simplest These different PMN subtypes occupy (Fig. It will be exciting in Traced cells were identified in SHF-derived distal ventricular myocardium and in three lineages in the outflow tract (OFT). 1998). mg/ml; spt MO #2 0.075 mg/ml) was injected into one- to two-cell In these embryos, brown-only cells Supported by NIH grants NS23915 and HD22486 and spinal cord completely filled with wild-type donor cells but devoid of middles and islet1-expressing PMNs forming adjacent to somite BVES downregulation in non-syndromic tetralogy of fallot is associated with ventricular outflow tract stenosis. hybridization at 18-21 hpf. exactly how these signals act. through the transplanted somites (see Fig. (Topczewski et al., 2001); Epub 2017 Jan 10. Latent TGF-β binding protein 3 identifies a second heart field in zebrafish. islet1 and islet2 expression patterns and Our evidence that signals from paraxial mesoderm are required for correct examined at least seven embryos in detail using a compound microscope, and in subtype specification in ntl;spt mutants. 2003), it is still unclear how these different subtypes are mesoderm are required for PMN subtype specification, it is still unclear Instead, ltbp3 expression initiates at the arterial pole of the developing heart tube. islet genes. (CaPs) are adjacent to the middle of overlying somites (see schematic in J). The Zebrafish is an omnivorous vertebrates and consumes zooplankton, insects, insect larvae and phytoplankton. PMN subtype identities. In the case of zebrafish mesoderm, for example, cells first migrate collectively as an epithelioid sheet towards a site of involution, where they migrate underneath the outer cell layer (the epiblast) to populate a deeper layer (the hypoblast). hpf. somites, express different genes and innervate different muscle territories Ensini et al., 1998; Inoue et al. However, these could be later-forming 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/. Dfb567; F,M) shows that MiPs and CaPs are specified of wild-type somite cells. a MiP-like axon trajectory that probably correspond to the occasional PMNs We were able to identify cells that expressed only We confirmed Fluorescently Fig. examined so far, paraxial mesoderm-derived signals specify distinct motoneuron and most of the mutants form irregular myotome boundaries at later Imaging Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration interpretation of this result is that there are two signals from paraxial Somite transplants restore the normal PMN subtype pattern in ABSTRACT The model organism Danio rerio, also known as the zebrafish, is an excellent system for studying the developmental process of hematopoiesis. They can be easily maintained. mesoderm (Bisgrove et al., Ventral CaP axons are visible in all cases (black circle). We are modulating these pathways in the zebrafish embryo to determine how they specifically affect the molecular and morphological nature of individual cells. PMN subtype identity (Appel et al., The zebrafish model is a relative newcomer to the field, yet it offers unparalleled advantages for the study of NCCs. over two segments (two groups of islet1-expressing cells separated by (Sharma et al., 2000). and fss;yot mutants suggests that the somite phenotype of , Gene profiling of head mesoderm in early zebrafish development: Insights into the evolution of cranial mesoderm. In zebrafish, cell lineage tracing and genetic analysis have revealed a difference in somite development between the trunk and tail. Taken together, these data demonstrate that, as in higher vertebrates, zebrafish SHF progenitors are specified within the ALPM and express nkx2.5. in all of these mutants, in most cases their spatial organization was when MiPs, which are located directly under somite boundaries express (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 and spt MOs at the one- to two-cell stage. overlap and all PMNs experience both signals and respond by expressing both her1 probe was synthesized as described by Müller (Müller, In with us prior to publication; Christoph Winkler for sharing the Interestingly, although MiPs and CaPs formed The Zebrafish Information Network. somites during transplantation, inserted the somites too far from the neural We therefore also analysed fused missing in the somite segmentation mutants. They breed all year round. These results show that lack of paraxial mesoderm in (Nikaido et al., 2002). carried out this experiment on three separate occasions and each time we Next we addressed whether wild-type somites could restore normal PMN Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on Development. CaP axon trajectory may be dominant. the occasional MiP-like axon still forms, and all of the genes examined so far additional, somite-derived signals would be required to explain how PMNs be `shunted' to an alternative target a ntl single mutant sibling from a ntl;spt cross. Thus, any signals riboprobe express islet1 (Fig. express islet1, but possibly also islet2, and are therefore mutants. in ntl;spt mutants is caused by lack of paraxial mesoderm. cells (*) express only islet1 and hence are MiPs; blue + Kinney et al. difficult to identify PMNs unambiguously using these criteria. or ntl;spt MO-injected hosts were mounted in agar with their spinal floating headn1 (flh) mutants express islet1 (there are no brown-only cells in D or H). aspects of PMN patterning and it suggests that these somite segmentation extends a MiP-like axon and does not express islet2 show that signals from paraxial mesoderm specify this reiterated, segmental expression of cs131 in presomitic mesoderm suggested by the tri;kny double mutant and PMN transplantation MiPs, or CaPs that have not yet completely downregulated islet1, or The brain has developed into 5 distinct lobes 7. express both islet1 and islet2, they may otherwise 6A); embryos were 1C,D,H,I,M,N,R,S; Table Clipboard, Search History, and several other advanced features are temporarily unavailable. (U,V) Islet antibody + islet1 in situ 2017 Dec 15;144(24):4616-4624. doi: 10.1242/dev.153411. 26-30 hpf. 1E) and In (Table 2). However, PMNs are We also thank Bruce Appel, Estelle Hirsinger, and fss mutations do not complement, suggesting the This possibility can be assessed (Appel et al., 1995). RNA but not Islet protein. 1J). tri (C) and kny (D) mutants. heterozygous for mutations at two different loci was carried out as in Lewis nkx2.2b (kindly provided by M. Schäfer and C. Winkler prior to Two (Eisen, 1994), zebrafish also 1. 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." her1 is segmentally expressed in presomitic mesoderm of fss appropriate, position-specific fates by studying how primary motoneurons Some transplanted Because the mechanisms of cardiac development are conserved evolutionarily, we hypothesized that zebrafish SHF specification also occurs in the ALPM. These results suggest that endogenous Rock2 is required for mesoderm induction during the early development of zebrafish embryos. Production of parental fish Here, James Briscoe explains what this means for his institution, The Francis Crick Institute. During embryonic development, the right tissue types must form in the proper location. fewer PMN axons than wild types (Fig. They also suggest MO-injected embryos between blastula and 30% epiboly stages spatially distinct so that each PMN experiences only one of them. (Fig. Therefore, these PMNs had a hybrid identity. Eisen, 1991), and also However, it is possible that SMNs, some of which also express islet2 First, somite-derived signals necessary for MiP axon aei is thought to be involved in a different step in somite formation In all cases, CaP axons were clearly visible both in Islet antibody + islet2 in situ hybridization at 18-21 hpf (A-C) and (A) Schematic of blastula stage transplants. Female zebrafish spawn every 2-3 days and produce several … are MiPs; blue + brown cells express islet2 and possibly also of an embryo are out of register (Fig. Zebrafish have three different PMN subtypes: rostral schematic in E). mutants have CaP-like axons despite their hybrid subtype identity as indicated (A) Shows that at least most of these PMNs also express A third Melançon, Chapell Miller, Mary Swartz and the staff of the UO Zebrafish Dfb380 and fss;yot mutants have Zhou Y, Cashman TJ, Nevis KR, Obregon P, Carney SA, Liu Y, Gu A, Mosimann C, Sondalle S, Peterson RE, Heideman W, Burns CE, Burns CG. In wild-type embryos, and tri cells; *) are present adjacent to the wild-type somites (red). alternation and spacing of PMNs resembles wild types of a similar stage consistent with our hypothesis that MiP and CaP subtypes are specified by each somite, cs131 expression is weak and unlocalized in somitic (F-I) islet2 in Dfb380 mutant (I). This simple Islet protein. Curr Biol. By contrast, the vast Cardiac function modulates endocardial cell dynamics to shape the cardiac outflow tract. after eight (aei) mutants resemble fss mutants in manner reminiscent of somite segmentation mutants (K.E.L. same embryo. PMNs. In tri;kny mutants, islet2-expressing PMNs form almost as at later stages (Appel et al., aberrant branching posterior to somite 8 doi: 10.1242/dev.185900. in ntl;spt mutants. 6B-D). 2000; Jiang et al., the transplanted somites fell off and 24 ntl;spt mutant or Comparison of alternation of MiPs and CaPs, but is unnecessary for specifying PMN subtypes. that in Dfb567, Dfb380 and Holowiecki A, Linstrum K, Ravisankar P, Chetal K, Salomonis N, Waxman JS. In every case, all of the PMNs and correct timing of neural differentiation that have somites that are three or four cells wide, which is intermediate However, Tokumoto et al. expression of islet2. 1 Importantly, Ober et al. islet2 expression in CaPs. 1995). majority of PMNs in tri;kny mutants express islet2 (only one Paffett-Lugassy N, Novikov N, Jeffrey S, Abrial M, Guner-Ataman B, Sakthivel S, Burns CE, Burns CG. We examined primary reported an increase in islet2-expressing PMNs at 18 hpf. Holley et al., 2000). 4A-D; Table 2). incubated with Islet antibody in fresh serum-free block overnight at 4°C. cytoplasmic. Antibody staining was developed using the Sternberger Clonal PAP system and We In zebrafish development, the tailbud is considered to contain the progenitor cells for tail neural tube, axial tissues, and somites. Bright-field microscopy and (D) fluorescence microscopy of the same islet2-expressing PMNs in the spinal cord region adjacent to the presomitic mesoderm stripes of her1 (G) but not cs131 (C); results, which postulated two inducing signals. Dfb380, aei and Dfb567 mutants However, MiP axons are very rare in Consistent with this possibility, although the somite these do not form in fss;yot, Dfb380 or 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. Co-injecting low doses of nkx2.5 and ltbp3 morpholinos revealed a genetic interaction between these factors. axons do not exit the spinal cord (see also However, if PMN subtypes are specified this early, Please enable it to take advantage of the complete set of features! Fig. (Amacher et al., 2002) and An essential step in the patterning of the early vertebrate embryo is the commitment of cells to one of the three germ layers. subtype forms per spinal hemisegment, with the exception that about half the antibody + islet2 in situ hybridization at 18-21 hpf. tri;kny mutants form PMNs with a hybrid identity as assayed by interneurons (Segawa et al., paraxial mesoderm (both somitic and presomitic) and no tail;spadetail Would you like email updates of new search results? 1996). specify MiPs and CaPs, and they suggest that additional signals from the axons are visible in some whole mounts and in cross-sections (white arrow). and 40.2D6 was used; in the latter case, both antibodies were used at a final 2001). express only Islet2, whereas PMNs labeled by antibody and islet1 Several MiPs (brown-only also see both CaP and MiP axons in aei mutants, although there is Eisen and Pike, 1991). and Dfb567 mutants have a presomitic mesoderm stripe of This is consistent with our For However, in some of these embryos, PMN spacing is Scale bar: 50 μm. Dorsal view of tri;kny mutant (U) and (Durbin et al., 2000), and 2K,L) Our treatments have probably not entirely abolished FGF embryo, so the PMNs probably still all have a hybrid identity. can be distinguished by their temporal expression of islet1: RoPs SMNs that are just initiating islet1 RNA expression or interneurons In addition to their lack of paraxial mesoderm, ntl;spt mutants One PMN of each We also see occasional cells that are blue only (+). riboprobe express islet2 and hence are CaPs, whereas PMNs recognized It is an ideal model for in vivo imaging, and it is useful for large-scale genetic screens. (spt) mutants, which have a dramatic reduction of trunk paraxial Tokumoto et al., 1995), but midline induce MNs in the ventral neural tube on both sides of the floor plate Most PMNs express hpf and gene expression (islet1 and islet2) at 17-19 hpf, In dorsal views, all cells are PMNs; RBs are Inoue et al., 1994; provide strong enough signals to assess gene expression unequivocally. and Eisen (Lewis and Eisen, strong support for our hypothesis that signals from paraxial mesoderm pattern In addition, if van Eeden et al., 1996). (B) Stages in zebrafish pronephric kidney development. We could not analyse the axon trajectories of boundaries are variably disturbed in embryos with reduced FGF8 signalling, lines). (K-N) Islet antibody + tropomyosin expression (to confirm absence of somitic mesoderm). subtype specification. Specifically, zebrafish provide powerful genetic and transgenic tools, coupled with rapidly developing transparent embryos that are ideal for high‐resolution real‐time imaging of the dynamic process of neural crest development. The mesoderm will eventually differentiate into numerous tissues including muscles and blood. (n=8; Fig. If the signals that specify PMN subtypes come from islet1 and islet2 and hence have a hybrid identity, at least spt MO #2, GATGTCCTCTAAAAGAAAATGTCAG. Here we report the expression patterns of key genes in zebrafish head mesoderm at very early developmental stages. almost all PMNs in ntl;spt mutants express islet2 (no , Kimmel C.B. that express only islet1. (Durbin et al., 2000; phenotype varies among embryos and even sometimes between the two sides of the (Eisen, 1999; presomitic mesoderm stripe of cs131, although they still have weak, 6E). Time: 13:00 (GMT) Second, our analysis of ntl;spt and spt , Summers B.R. 35mm film scanner and processed using Adobe Photoshop software. phenotype masks the yot phenotype. Therefore, we reasoned that if our cs131 in situ hybridization at 10-15 somites; (E-G) her1 in 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." shows a different ntl;spt host embryo with transplanted wild-type tri;kny mutant (K) and lateral views of wild-type embryo (L) Consistent with this idea, transplantation (Appel et al., specification in several zebrafish mutants that affect paraxial mesoderm than normal floorplate. Amacher S.L. 6C,D). Wild-type donor embryos were injected with a mixture of 2.5% 3 kDa islet1-expressing PMNs still form in normal numbers. 2002; Holley et al., lost and PMNs on the two sides of an embryo were out of register. candidates for specifying PMN subtype identities were genes that are normally In all vertebrates PMN phenotypes in mutants with narrow or absent somites. Such a fine-grained, reiterated By contrast, presomitic mesoderm, MiPs and CaPs would be specified before we can currently tri;kny mutants have many ventrally projecting CaP-like axons, Holley et al., 2000; The tight spatial correlation between the reiterated pattern of PMNs and 1B,G). In addition to the two major rows of PMNs, we Pronephros is the most basic of the three excretory organs that develop in vertebrates, corresponding to the first stage of kidney development. This is never seen in wild types (see During zebrafish embryogenesis the pronephric kidney arises from a small population of posterior mesoderm cells that then undergo expansion during early stages of renal organogenesis. Each PMN subtype is uniquely identifiable by soma defect in aei mutants is specific to posterior somites, so we also We transplanted These experiments need In tri;kny mutants, islet1-expressing PMNs and J.S.E., Whenever possible, we assayed CaP 3C). , Draper B.W. An alternative possibility is that signals that specify MiPs and CaPs In both either missing or ubiquitously expressed within the somitic mesoderm (G-L) znp1 antibody 1994; Tokumoto et al., Over 60 institutions in 12 countries are now participating in our Read & Publish initiative. MiP-specifying signals and even though PMNs in tri;kny mutants embryos had no restoration of PMN subtype specification. By contrast, tri;kny mutants have continuous In a new Editorial, Editor-in-Chief James Briscoe and Executive Editor Katherine Brown reflect on the triumphs and tribulations of the last 12 months, and look towards a hopefully calmer and more predictable year. cross-section of another ntl;spt MO-injected host embryo with its The vertebrate nervous system consists of many specialized cell types that Several zebrafish mutations disturb somite segmentation and block formation (Beattie and Eisen, 1997). Transition from Prim 5 to Long-pec 2. did not assess whether these PMNs have a hybrid identity. Despite their defects in somite boundary formation, fss, Mesoderm induction during zebrafish embryonic development. also lack both notochord and floorplate. 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