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Science 9 November 1990:
Vol. 250. no. 4982, pp. 802 - 805
DOI: 10.1126/science.1978412
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Science, Vol 250, Issue 4982, 802-805
Copyright © 1990 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Specification of jaw muscle identity in zebrafish: correlation with engrailed-homeoprotein expression

K Hatta, TF Schilling, RA BreMiller, and CB Kimmel

Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403.

Molecules that determine the specific features of individual muscles in vertebrates are unknown. Antibody labeling studies described here revealed a molecular difference among muscles in the zebrafish head, in that two functionally related jaw muscles (the levator arcus palatini and the dilator operculi), and not other head muscles, expressed engrailed-homeodomain proteins. Expression began in mesoderm-derived muscle-precursor cells in the paraxial mesenchyme and continued during muscle morphogenesis and differentiation. Growth cones of trigeminal motoneurons that innervate these muscles associated with the precursors within a few hours of the time they began to express engrailed. It is proposed that the engrailed proteins in these cells establish muscle identity and neuromuscular target recognition.


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