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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Biol. 2014 Jun 24;393(1):109–123. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.06.014

Table 3. Coupling of blastomeres in the 4-cell Xenopus embryo.

DR to DL DL to DR DL to VL VL to DL VL to VR VR to VL VR to DR DR to VR
coupled 5 6 7 6 2 3 8 5
not coupled 2 3 5 3 10 8 3 2
% coupled 0.71 0.67 0.58 0.67 0.17* 0.27* 0.73 0.71

Compilation of results from serotonin-FITC injection experiments (cf Fig. 4). D, dorsal; L, left; R, right; V, ventral.

Asterisks (*) mark low transfer rates between ventral left and right blastomeres, consistent with a lack of cytoplasmic bridges (cf. Fig. 5).