Subfunctionalization of Duplicated Zebrafish pax6 Genes by cis-Regulatory Divergence
Figure 3
Analysis of pax6b Function in Zebrafish, with the Aim of Validating the Effect of the pax6b L244P Missense Mutation in sri Fish
(A–D) Phenotype elicited using pax6b morpholinos: (A) Uninjected wild type fish at 48 hpf; fish injected with the same amount of a control scrambled morpholino also produced no effect.
(B) Substantially reduced eye size and generally delayed development are observed by 48 hpf in response to injection of either of the two pax6b morpholinos.
(C and D) At 32 hpf reduction in eye size is observed (white dotted outlines) in otherwise normal looking embryos.
(E) The effects of injecting capped mRNA at levels that generally rescue the phenotype illustrating the spectrum of phenotypes to bilateral anophthalmia, observed when pax6b capped mRNA is injected at levels generally used for phenotype rescue experiments in zebrafish.