Fig. 6. Defects in neural crest migration and survival in
lowts213 mutants. (A-D) Living 24 hpf embryos labeled by
laser activation of DMNB-caged fluorescein (green) 12 hours earlier in the
dorsal midbrain and posterior hindbrain of wild type (A) and low
mutant (B), or anterior hindbrain of wild type (C) and low mutant
(D), and corresponding neural crest (arrows). (E,F) TUNEL labeling of dying
cells in six-somite stage zebrafish embryos. (G,H) Co-labeling with TUNEL and
in situ hybridization for ctn mRNA at the eight-somite stage
(dorsolateral views just posterior to the otic vesicle, ot) showing dying
cells within the normal ctn expression domain and in adjacent
non-neural ectoderm (arrows). (I) Histogram comparing numbers of apoptotic
cells in wild type (blue) and lowts213 mutants (red).
Scale bars: 100 µm.