Fig. 7. A strong genetic interaction between fgf10/dae and
extl3/box during limb development. Four-day live photos (A-E) of
wild-type (A), fgf10/dae (B), extl3/box (C),
ext2/dak (D) and
box/;dae+/ (E) embryos.
All photos are dorsal views with anterior towards the left. dae (B)
mutant embryos have a severe truncation of pectoral fin compared with siblings
(A). extl3/box (C) mutants have a weaker pectoral fin truncation,
whereas ext2/dak (D) appears similar to fgf10/dae and has a
severe truncation of the fin. Removal of one copy of fgf10 in an
extl3/box mutant background (E) severely worsens the
extl3/box phenotype, demonstrating a genetic interaction between
dae/fgf10 and box/extl3. SNP genotyping
(F) confirms the dae/fgf10 genotype (see Materials and methods). WT,
wild-type embryo; het, heterozygous embryo; dae, daedalus mutant
embryo; L, ladder; C, box mutant embryo shown in C; E,
box/;dae+/ embryo shown in
E.