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The zebrafish dorsal axis is apparent at the four-cell stage

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  • Aniket V. Gore

    (Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
    National University of Singapore)

  • Shingo Maegawa

    (University of Pennsylvania)

  • Albert Cheong

    (Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory)

  • Patrick C. Gilligan

    (Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory)

  • Eric S. Weinberg

    (University of Pennsylvania)

  • Karuna Sampath

    (Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
    National University of Singapore)

Abstract

Polarity arrives early Several decades of work in frogs and fish led to the hypothesis that ‘localized determinants’ deposited in the egg by the mother establish the dorsal axis of the developing embryo, but the nature of the determinants has remained a mystery. New work in the zebrafish embryo identifies Squint, a Nodal-related transforming growth factor-β signal, as a possible localized dorsal determinant. Squint is present in the two- and four-cell embryo, suggesting that embryonic polarity is established very early on in development. The presence of Squint element in mammals suggests that this mechanism of polarity determination is conserved in the higher vertebrates.

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  • Aniket V. Gore & Shingo Maegawa & Albert Cheong & Patrick C. Gilligan & Eric S. Weinberg & Karuna Sampath, 2005. "The zebrafish dorsal axis is apparent at the four-cell stage," Nature, Nature, vol. 438(7070), pages 1030-1035, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:438:y:2005:i:7070:d:10.1038_nature04184
    DOI: 10.1038/nature04184
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