Fin Experiment (IMAGE)

University of Chicago Medical Center

Fin Experiment

Caption

The image on the left shows the fin bones of a wild type medaka fish. The image on the right is a medaka with the gli3 gene knocked out. The knockout fish has extra proximal radial bones (labeled pr in teal) and additional fin rays, signs of the fish version of polydactyly.

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Image from Letelier et al., PNAS, 2021

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