PUBLICATION

A dynamic fate map of the forebrain shows how vertebrate eyes form and explains two causes of cyclopia

Authors
England, S.J., Blanchard, G.B., Mahadevan, L., and Adams, R.J.
ID
ZDB-PUB-080825-3
Date
2006
Source
Development (Cambridge, England)   133(23): 4613-4617 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Adams, Richard
Keywords
Zebrafish, Time-lapse microscopy, Neurulation, Cyclopia, Quantitative analyses
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Eye Abnormalities/embryology*
  • Eye Abnormalities/genetics
  • Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/genetics
  • Mutation
  • Prosencephalon/embryology*
  • Wnt Proteins/genetics
  • Zebrafish/embryology*
  • Zebrafish/genetics
  • Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
PubMed
17079266 Full text @ Development
Abstract
Mechanisms for shaping and folding sheets of cells during development are poorly understood. An example is the complex reorganisation of the forebrain neural plate during neurulation, which must fold a sheet into a tube while evaginating two eyes from a single contiguous domain within the neural plate. We, for the first time, track these cell rearrangements to show that forebrain morphogenesis differs significantly from prior hypotheses. We postulate a new model for forebrain neurulation and demonstrate how mutations affecting two signalling pathways can generate cyclopic phenotypes by disrupting normal cell movements or introducing new erroneous behaviours.
Genes / Markers
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Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping