Table 1.

Wild type fusion profiles of individual muscles.

Muscle	Stage 12	Stage 13	Stage 14	Stage 15
DA1	1.10 ± 0.30 (1–2)	1.90 ± 0.89 (1–4)	5.02 ± 1.85 (2–9)	9.02 ± 1.65 (6–16)
DO2	1.04 ± 0.20 (1–2)	2.60 ± 1.01 (1–5)	5.42 ± 2.00 (3–9)	10.76 ± 1.82 (8–17)
DT1	n.d.*	1.68 ± 0.68 (1–3)	4.20 ± 1.01 (2–6)	5.74 ± 0.83 (4–8)
VT1	1.00 ± 0.00 (1)	1.44 ± 0.54 (1–3)	2.16 ± 0.65 (1–4)	2.62 ± 0.64 (2–4)
VA2	1.00 ± 0.00 (1)	1.70 ± 0.65 (1–4)	5.98 ± 1.51 (4–8)	8.92 ± 1.54 (6–13)

For each stage and muscle the average number of nuclei +/− standard deviation are shown (n=50). The range of nuclei numbers observed are shown in brackets.

^*Not determined due to inability to detect Slouch expression in the DT1 FC at this stage.