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SUBMITTER: Mosimann C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4560818 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20150826
The vertebrate heart muscle (myocardium) develops from the first heart field (FHF) and expands by adding second heart field (SHF) cells. While both lineages exist already in teleosts, the primordial contributions of FHF and SHF to heart structure and function remain incompletely understood. Here we delineate the functional contribution of the FHF and SHF to the zebrafish heart using the cis-regulatory elements of the draculin (drl) gene. The drl reporters initially delineate the lateral plate me ...[more]