Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Supracellular Mechanics and Counter-Rotational Bilateral Flows Orchestrate Posterior Morphogenesis
doi: 10.1101/2025.11.18.689090
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Dorso-anterior index (DAI) of the severity of dorsalized and ventralized phenotypes. (B) Representative phenotypes of each treatment at stage 20, showing characteristic morphological differences between dorsalized, ventralized, and control embryos. (C) Final frame of brightfield timelapse sequence, overlaid with a yellow deformation map (see also Video S6). (D) Vorticity overlaid randomized dot plots deformed by calculated displacements, and max-projected across all timepoints to visualize movement patterns. Representative images are shown for each treatment. (E) SWIRL predicted vortices highlight vortex structure and organization. (F-G) Quantitative comparison of predicted vortex characteristics in dorsalized (8 vortices from 11 embryos), control (32 vortices from 19 embryos), and ventralized (11 vortices from 11 embryos) embryos. Each symbol represents a single predicted vortex (Mann-Whitney U, ∗∗p=0.0012; ∗∗p=0.0061; ∗∗∗p=0.0002; ∗∗∗∗p<0.0001). (F) Vortex compactness (mean ± 95% CI). (G) Vortex swirling strength (mean ± 95% CI). (H) Fibronectin networks in posterior tissues from stage 24 embryos within a 100 by 100 µm region ventral to the blastopore. (I) Fibronectin orientation frequency in each treatment (n, number of embryos used; Square goodness-of-fit test, ∗∗∗∗p<0.0001) (J) Morphological features of fibronectin network in dorsalized, control, and ventralized embryos. Each symbol represents the mean value per embryo (Mann-Whitney U, ∗p=0.0426; ∗∗∗∗ p < 0.0001). Bars indicate mean ± 95% CI. (B-C) scale bars, 100 µm; 20 µm in (H). (A) DAI diagram with permission of the publisher. Xenopus illustrations © Natalya Zahn (2022).
Article Snippet: Immunofluorescence staining was carried out with primary antibodies against fibrillin-2 (JB3, Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank; 1:200), collagen-2 (II-II6B3, Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank; 1:100), laminin-a1 (L9393, Sigma-Aldrich; 1:500), mouse anti-fibronectin monoclonal antibody (4H2, courtesy of Douglas DeSimone, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA; 1:500), rabbit anti-fibronectin polyclonal antibody (F3648, Sigma; 1:200), acetylated tubulin (T6793; Sigma; 1:125), keratin (1h5; Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank; 1:500), and GFP (N86/8; Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank; 1:50) and incubated overnight on a nutator at 4 °C.
Techniques: Control, Sequencing, Comparison, MANN-WHITNEY