... of the vasculature. We therefore performed a longitudinal analysis of zebrafish caudal fin vascular assembly, revealing the existence of temporally and spatially distinct morphogenetic processes. Initially, vein-derived endothelial cells (ECs) generated arteries in a reiterative process requiring vascular...

... development and tissue regeneration, we studied zebrafish caudal fin arteries. Mural cells colonizing arteries proximal to the body wrapped around them, whereas those in more distal regions extended protrusions along the proximo-distal vascular axis. Both cell populations expressed platelet-derived growth...

... as heterozygotes; wild-type siblings served as controls. Reporter lines were analyzed as hetero- or homozygotes. Caudal fins were amputated along the dorsoventral axis, intersecting the median rays halfway for normal cuts, at ∼30% ray length for proximal cuts and at ∼70% ray length for distal cuts. Fish were...

...Nicola Blum; Gerrit Begemann The zebrafish caudal fin consists of repeated units of bony rays separated by soft interray tissue, an organization that must be faithfully re-established during fin regeneration. How and why regenerating rays respect ray-interray boundaries, thus extending only...

... . Azevedo A. S. , Grotek B. , Jacinto A. , Weidinger G. , Saúde L. ( 2011 ). The regenerative capacity of the zebrafish caudal fin is not affected by repeated amputations . PLoS ONE 6 , e22820 . Beck C. W. , Christen B. , Slack J. M. ( 2003 ). Molecular...

..., an essential requirement for fin regeneration. * Author for correspondence ( jlpompa@cnic.es ) Competing interests statement The authors declare no competing financial interests. 7 12 2012 © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 Caudal fin Regeneration...

... ( gerrit.begemann@uni-konstanz.de ) Competing interests statement The authors declare no competing financial interests. 2 11 2011 © 2012. Proliferation Caudal fin Cell death Gene network aldh1a2 ( raldh2 ) Zebrafish Fish and amphibians have the ability...