Grace Gustafson (@graceinsci.bsky.social)

The Nichols Lab isn't very present on BlueSky yet, but check out our recent paper on a dorsal and anal fin mutant that unlocked our lab's recent interest in limb development: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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The sclerotome is the source of the dorsal and anal fin skeleton and its expansion is required for median fin development Summary: The sclerotome, an embryonic structure within the somites, is the source of median fin cells and is reduced in smoothback mutant embryos, which do not form dorsal fins as adults. https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/151/24/dev203025/363459/The-sclerotome-is-the-source-of-the-dorsal-and