REAGENT or RESOURCE	SOURCE	IDENTIFIER
Antibodies
Mouse monoclonal anti-Otoferlin antibody (HCS-1)	DSHB	Cat.#HCS-1; RRID:AB_10804296
Alexa fluor-674 goat anti-mouse antibody	Thermo Fisher	Cat.# A-21236; RRID:AB_2535805
Anti-Digoxigenin-AP, Fab Fragments	Millipore Sigma	Cat.# 11093274910; RRID:AB_2734716
Chemicals, peptides, and recombinant proteins
(2-(4-(Dimethylamino)styryl)-N-ethylpyridinium iodide) (DASPEI)	BIOTIUM	70018
DAPI	Thermo Fisher	D1306
Neomycin sulphate (NEO)	Millipore Sigma	N0400000
Digoxygenin RNA labeling mix	Millipore Sigma	11277073901
Experimental models: Organisms/strains
Zebrafish: Wildtype *AB	ZIRC http://zebrafish.org	ZFIN:ZDB-GENO-960809-7
Zebrafish: epcam jh79	(Edelman et al., 2021)	ZFIN:ZDB-ALT220225-4
Oligonucleotides
epcam in situ hybridization probe template primers Forward:5’GGTTCCCAAGTGCTTCCTCA3’ Reverse:5’CCAAGCTTCTAATACGACTCACTATAGGGAGACAGCACAACTGCCCCAATTT3’	IDT	ZFIN:ZDB-GENE-040426-2209
Software and algorithms
FIJI	(Schindelin et al., 2012)	https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/
PRISM	GraphPad	www.graphpad.co