Fig. 3. Cell cycle progression is necessary for somitogenesis but not
segmentation clock function. (A,B) Dorsal views of anterior
trunk somites in wild-type (A) and emi1-/- (B) embryos at
the 15-somite stage. (C,D) Posterior trunk myotomes of wild-type
(C) and emi1-/- (D) embryos at 36 hpf, lateral views. Slow
muscle fibers are labeled with S58 antibodies (green). Scale bars: 30 µm.
(E-J) her1 expression at the 3-, 8- and 15-somite stages in
(E-G) wild-type and (H-J) emi1-/- embryos. (K-N)
her1 stripe integrity was examined in emi1-/- and
sibling embryos injected with morpholinos against either deltaC or
deltaD. her1 expression was rated according to four
categories representing increasing levels of disorganization: wild type; (K)
stripes with some `salt and pepper' expression; (L) stripes begin to merge;
and (M) no stripes. (N) Distributions of gene expression patterns are
displayed for three independent trials (x-axis). Within each gene
expression category, the fraction of sibling embryos is subtracted from the
fraction of mutant embryos. For example, the wild-type category in the first
deltaC morpholino trial included 0.20 fraction of the mutant embryos
(20%) and 0.02 fraction of the sibling embryos (2%), giving a graphed value of
0.18. In deltaC morpholino trials, the number of mutants and siblings
assayed (mutant/siblings) were: 39/74, 27/79 and 16/57. For deltaD
morpholino trials, the corresponding numbers were: 60/50, 28/74 and 49/90.
Given the subjective nature of the expression classification, a second assayer
performed an independent blind classification of the same embryos (see Fig. S1
in the supplementary material). Although the profiles of the distributions
differ, the distinction between emi1 and sibling embryos was
consistent. In A-D, anterior is left. In E-M, anterior is up.