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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Dyn. 2010 Nov;239(11):3115–3123. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.22445

Table 1. Cardiac and skeletal muscle phenotypes at 2 dpf in embryos injected with morpholinos targeting the three zebrafish troponin C genes.

Embryos were injected at the one- to four-cell stage with tnnc1a, tnnc1b, or tnnc2 morpholinos either singly or in pair-wise fashion (see Methods). Embryos were then assayed for (A) heart or (B) skeletal muscle contraction at 2 dpf and were characterized as one of the following phenotypes; wild-type (contraction of both chambers with blood circulation); sil phenotype (contraction of the atrium, silent ventricle, and absence of blood circulation); contraction, no flow (contraction of both chambers with the absence of blood circulation); no contraction, no flow (no contraction in either chamber with the absence of blood circulation); sk. m. impaired (decreased touch-response); paralyzed (no touch response).

Table 1A. Cardiac phenotype at 2 dpf in embryos injected with morpholinos targeting three zebrafish troponin C genes.
wild-type sil phenotype contraction
no flow
no contraction
no flow
uninjected 316 (99.7%) 0 (0%) 1 (0.3%) 0 (0%)
tnnc1a 1 (0.7%) 150 (98.6%) 1 (0.7%) 0 (0%)
tnnc1b 134 (75.3%) 0 (0%) 43 (24.1%) 1 (0.6%)
tnnc2 137 (99.3%) 0 (0%) 1 (0.7%) 0 (0%)
tnnc1a + tnnc1b 0 (0%) 2 (2.3%) 0 (0%) 84 (97.7%)
tnnc1a + tnnc2 0 (0%) 74 (100%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
tnnc1b + tnnc2 51 (77.3%) 0 (0%) 15 (22.7%) 0 (0%)
Table 1B. Skeletal muscle phenotype at 2 dpf in embryos injected with morpholinos targeting three zebrafish troponin C genes.
wild-type sk. m. impaired paralyzed
uninjected 317 (100%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
tnnc1a 152 (100%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
tnnc1b 0 (0%) 178 (100%) 0 (0%)
tnnc2 0 (0%) 138 (100%) 0 (0%)
tnnc1a + tnnc1b 0 (0%) 86 (100%) 0 (0%)
tnnc1a + tnnc2 0 (0%) 31 (42%) 43(58%)
tnnc1b + tnnc2 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 66(100%)