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Strain maps characterize the symmetry of convergence and extension patterns during Zebrafish gastrulation

Dipanjan Bhattacharya, View ORCID ProfileJun Zhong, Sahar Tavakoli, Alexandre Kabla, View ORCID ProfilePaul Matsudaira
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/407940
Dipanjan Bhattacharya
Institute FIRC of Molecular Oncology (IFOM), Milan;
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Jun Zhong
National University of Singapore;
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Sahar Tavakoli
Harvard University;
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Alexandre Kabla
University of Cambridge
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Paul Matsudaira
National University of Singapore;
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Abstract

During gastrulation of the zebrafish embryo, the cap of blastoderm cells organizes into the axial body plan of the embryo with left-right symmetry and head-tail, dorsal-ventral polarities. Our labs have been interested in the mechanics of early development and have investigated whether these large-scale cells movements can be described as tissue-level mechanical strain by a tectonics-based approach. The first step is to image the positions of all nuclei from mid-epiboly to early segmentation by digital sheet light microscopy (DSLM), organize the surface of the embryo into multi-cell spherical domains, construct velocity fields from the movements of these domains and extract 3D strain rate maps. Tensile/expansive and compressive strains in the axial and equatorial directions are detected during gastrulation as anterior and posterior expansion along the anterior-posterior axis and medial-lateral compression across the dorsal-ventral axis corresponding to convergence and extension. In later stages in development are represented by localized medial expansion at the onset of segmentation and anterior expansion at the onset of neurulation. Symmetric patterns of rotation are first detected in the animal hemispheres at mid-epiboly and then the vegetal hemispheres by the end of gastrulation. By analysing the temporal sequence of large scale movements, deformations across the embryo can be attributed to a combination of epiboly and dorsal convergence-extension.

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Strain maps characterize the symmetry of convergence and extension patterns during Zebrafish gastrulation
Dipanjan Bhattacharya, Jun Zhong, Sahar Tavakoli, Alexandre Kabla, Paul Matsudaira
bioRxiv 407940; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/407940
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Strain maps characterize the symmetry of convergence and extension patterns during Zebrafish gastrulation
Dipanjan Bhattacharya, Jun Zhong, Sahar Tavakoli, Alexandre Kabla, Paul Matsudaira
bioRxiv 407940; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/407940

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