Fig. 4. Restoration of endoderm rescues epibranchial ganglia in cas/sox32
mutants. (A) Diagram showing transplantation technique. Cells were grafted at
blastula stages from cas mRNA-injected (or TaramA-injected, tar*),
wild-type (wt) donors co-injected with biotinylated-dextran (orange) into
unlabeled cas mutant hosts. Transplants gave rise to endodermal cells
in the arches (box outlined in red) and induced epibranchial ganglia (blue).
(B,D,E) Lateral views, 48 hpf, showing examples of epibranchial rescue by such
cas-injected endodermal transplants (brown), as determined by in situ
hybridization for phox2b expression (blue). pf, pectoral fin. (C)
Dorsal view. Scale bar: 50 µm.