The flat top Mutation
Affects the Differentiation of Post-Otic Neural Crest
Tor Linbo*, Cecilia Moens^ & David W. Raible*
*Department of Biological Structures,
University of Washington and ^Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center
The Neural Crest Derived Posterior Gill Arches Do
Not Form in flat top Mutants
Ventral View of wt Skull 4dpf.
Ventral View of ftp Skull 4dpf.
flat top Mutants do have Environmental Factors
to Support the Cartilages of the Posterior Arches
Rhodamine-dextran labeled cells were transferred
from wild type donor embryos (labeled at 1-4 cell stage) to the
ventral region (fated to be neural crest) of unlabeled flat tope
shield-stage hosts. The hosts were raised and crest derivatives
were evaluated.
