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ArticleDevelopmental biology2020

A single-cell transcriptome atlas for zebrafish development.

Dylan R Farnsworth, Lauren M Saunders, Adam C Miller

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Article in Developmental biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 172 papers.

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172 citing papers in PubMed, 312 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dylan R FarnsworthInstitute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
Lauren M SaundersDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Adam C MillerInstitute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA. Electronic address: acmiller@uoregon.edu.
University of Oregon · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Molecular Mechanisms of Electrical Synapse Formation in VivoR01NS105758 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI Adam C Miller · 2019 to 2026
$3.7M
A Single-Cell Transcriptome Atlas for Zebrafish DevelopmentR24OD026591 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI KIMMEL, CHARLES B, MILLER, ADAM C · 2019 to 2022
$3.0M
NIH HHS R24 OD026591NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS105758
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability to define cell types and how they change during organogenesis is central to our understanding of animal development and human disease. Despite the crucial nature of this knowledge, we have yet to fully characterize all distinct cell types and the gene expression differences that generate cell types during development. To address this knowledge gap, we produced an atlas using single-cell RNA-sequencing methods to investigate gene expression from the pharyngula to early larval stages in developing zebrafish. Our single-cell transcriptome atlas encompasses transcriptional profiles from 44,102 ​cells across four days of development using duplicate experiments that confirmed high reproducibility. We annotated 220 identified clusters and highlighted several strategies for interrogating changes in gene expression associated with the development of zebrafish embryos at single-cell resolution. Furthermore, we highlight the power of this analysis to assign new cell-type or developmental stage-specific expression information to many genes, including those that are currently known only by sequence and/or that lack expression information altogether. The resulting atlas is a resource for biologists to generate hypotheses for functional analysis, which we hope integrates with existing efforts to define the diversity of cell-types during zebrafish organogenesis, and to examine the transcriptional profiles that produce each cell type over developmental time.

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TranscriptomeAnimalsEmbryonic DevelopmentFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalLarvaMaleOrganogenesisReproducibility of ResultsRetinaSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisZebrafish

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PMID31782996
PMCPMC7080588
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