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ArticleNature communications2025

The physical roles of different posterior tissues in zebrafish axis elongation.

Georgina A Stooke-Vaughan, Sangwoo Kim, Shuo-Ting Yen, Kevin Son, Samhita P Banavar, James Giammona, David Kimelman, Otger Campàs

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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8 authors.

Georgina A Stooke-Vaughan *Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1909-7311
Sangwoo Kim *Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6646-9376
Shuo-Ting Yen *Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4277-1965
Kevin SonDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
Samhita P BanavarDepartment of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6405-0574
James GiammonaDepartment of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2381-7630
David KimelmanDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9261-4506
Otger CampàsDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. otger.campas@tu-dresden.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9642-8030

Funding

Biomechanical mechanisms underlying the formation of the vertebrate body axisR01HD095797 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA · PI CAMPAS, OTGER · 2018 to 2023
$1.8M
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) EXC 2068-390729961NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD095797U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01HD095797
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Shaping embryonic tissues requires spatiotemporal changes in genetic and signaling activity as well as in tissue mechanics. Studies linking specific molecular perturbations to changes in the tissue physical state remain sparse. Here we study how specific genetic perturbations affecting different posterior tissues during zebrafish body axis elongation change their physical state, the resulting large-scale tissue flows, and posterior elongation. Using a custom analysis software to reveal spatiotemporal variations in tissue fluidity, we show that dorsal tissues are most fluid at the posterior end, rigidify anterior of this region, and become more fluid again yet further anteriorly. In the absence of notochord (noto mutants) or when the presomitic mesoderm is substantially reduced (tbx16 mutants), dorsal tissues elongate normally. Perturbations of posterior-directed morphogenetic flows in dorsal tissues (vangl2 mutants) strongly affect the speed of elongation, highlighting the essential role of dorsal cell flows in delivering the necessary material to elongate the axis.

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Body PatterningZebrafishAnimalsEmbryo, NonmammalianGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalMesodermMorphogenesisMutationNotochordT-Box Domain ProteinsZebrafish ProteinsT-Box Domain ProteinsZebrafish Proteins

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PMID39984461
PMCPMC11845790

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