Figure 1: Experimental design and embryo survival.

A. Experimental design for surgical ablations of unilateral cardiac neural crest. After 7 days of culture, embryos that survived ranged from stages HH32-35. Dashed line shows angle of sectioning. H = heart. B. Number of embryos operated on and number surviving each type of surgery/sham surgery. C. Survival of all embryos after 7 days of culture following surgery/sham surgery (to at least HH32). D. Survival probability (from HH22-32) of embryos undergoing left, right or sham ablations. Asterix at HH10 indicates the time at which surgery occurred.