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Supp. Fig. S3. Schematic representation of a Xenopus embryo at stage 28. A schematic representation of a stage-28 embryo with the different tissues coloured and annotated. The yellow-green area at the very anterior of the embryo includes the forebrain, anterior mesoderm, and the anterior placode area. Just posterior in brown is the olfactory placodes. The eye is in purple with the lens in dark purple. The trigeminal nerve is in pink and the otic vesicle in orange. The grey area represents the branchial arches. The neural tube is yellow with the Midbrain-Hindbrain Boundary in dark pink. The notochord in red runs ventral to the neural tube. The light blue stripes represent the somites and the blue area posterior to the somites is the presomitic mesoderm. The tailbud is in dark blue. The pronephric tubules and duct are in burgundy. The fin core is in dark green while the fin crest is in light green. Image published in: Lea R et al. (2009) Copyright © 2009. Image reproduced with permission of the Publisher, John Wiley & Sons. Larger Image Printer Friendly View

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