. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 24.

Published in final edited form as: Dev Biol. 2009 Jan 15;325(2):363–373. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2008.10.030

Table 1.

Dynamic behaviors of FBMNs located in r4 of wild-type and morphant embryos

	Control (15 cells)	tag1 MO (15 cells)	stbm MO (15 cells)	lama1 MO (15 cells)
Speed (μm/h)	19.40±6.72	24.05±5.34	24.55±8.88	22.76±5.46
Length to width ratio (LWR)	2.03±0.33	1.85±0.38	2.07±0.67	1.97±0.39
Rate of area change (μm²/min)	13.42±1.99	12.53±3.67	12.18±3.59	12.47±2.80
Caudal speed (μm/h)	8.35±6.48	2.70±5.94^*	0.96±5.46^*	0.90±4.80^*
Caudal directionality	0.27±0.20	0.16±0.32	0.01±0.33^*	0.05±0.27^*
Rate of direction change (# of 90° changes/10 min)	1.74±0.60	2.89±0.56^*	2.77±0.53^*	2.77±0.46^*

See Materials and methods section for definition of parameters and their calculation.

Highly significant with p<0.05 (Student’s t-test, compared to control). All other parameters were not significantly different between control and experimental embryos.