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Eye morphogenesis in the blind Mexican cavefish

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The morphogenesis of the vertebrate eye consists of a complex choreography of cell movements, tightly coupled to axial regionalization and cell type specification processes. Disturbances in these events can lead to developmental defects and blindness. Here, we have deciphered the sequence of defective events leading to coloboma in the embryonic eye of the blind cavefish of the species Astyanax mexicanus. Using comparative live imaging on targeted enhancer-trap Zic1:hsp70:GFP reporter lines of both the normal, river-dwelling morph and the cave morph of the species, we identified defects in migratory cell behaviours during evagination that participate in the reduced optic vesicle size in cavefish, without proliferation defect. Further, impaired optic cup invagination shifts the relative position of the lens and contributes to coloboma in cavefish. Based on these results, we propose a developmental scenario to explain the cavefish phenotype and discuss developmental constraints to morphological evolution. The cavefish eye appears as an outstanding natural mutant model to study molecular and cellular processes involved in optic region morphogenesis.
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hal-03412021 , version 1 (05-11-2021)

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Lucie Devos, François Agnès, Joanne Edouard, Victor Simon, Laurent Legendre, et al.. Eye morphogenesis in the blind Mexican cavefish. Biology Open, 2021, 10 (10), pp.bio059031. ⟨10.1242/bio.059031⟩. ⟨hal-03412021⟩
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