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DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS
Volume 238, Issue 4, Pages 899-907Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21916
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zebrafish; mutant; mid-hind brain boundary; pax2a
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- Uehara Memorial Foundation
- University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
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The vertebrate mid-hindbrain boundary (MHB) is a crucial morphological structure required for patterning and neural differentiation of the midbrain and anterior hindbrain. We isolated a novel zebrafish mutant, MHB gone (mgo), that exhibited a defective MHB. Expression of engrailed3 in the prospective MHB was absent at the 1-somite stage, suggesting that initiation of the isthmic organizer was disrupted in mgo mutants. Complementation test with mgo and noi, in which the pax2a gene is mutated, infer that the mgo mutant may represent a novel not allele. However, pronephric, otic vesicle, and commissural axonal defects described in not mutants were not associated with mgo mutants. Genetic mapping revealed that the mgo mutation is linked to the Pax2a locus, but no mutation was detected in pax2a exons or within intron-exon boundaries. Based on these findings, we propose that the mgo mutation genetically interacts with pax2a required for the initiation of MHB formation. Developmental Dynamics 238:899-907, 2009. (C) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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