Article Information
- Received July 25, 2013
- Revision received December 18, 2013
- Accepted December 28, 2013
- First published February 5, 2014.
- Version of record published February 5, 2014.
Author Information
- James M. Clegg1,
- Christopher D. Conway1,
- Kathy M. Howe,
- David J. Price1,
- John O. Mason1,
- Jeremy E. Turnbull2,
- M. Albert Basson3, and
- Thomas Pratt1
- 1Centre for Integrative Physiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, United Kingdom,
- 2Centre for Glycobiology, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, United Kingdom, and
- 3Department of Craniofacial Development and Stem Cell Biology, King's College London, London SE5 9RW, United Kingdom
Author contributions
Author contributions: J.M.C., D.J.P., J.O.M., J.E.T., M.A.B., and T.P. designed research; J.M.C., C.D.C., and K.M.H. performed research; J.M.C. analyzed data; J.M.C. and T.P. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received July 25, 2013.
- Revision received December 18, 2013.
- Accepted December 28, 2013.
This work was supported by the Medical Research Council (Grant G0701460) and The Wellcome Trust (Grants 094832/Z/10/Z and 091475). We thank Kirsty Ferrier, Gwen Harrison, Erin O'Hare, Samantha Martin, and Da Mi for excellent technical assistance; Tian Yu for coordinating Fgf8 matings and embryo collections; BRR staff for animal husbandry; and Scott Guimond and Thomas Theil for discussion. The Fgf8 mutant lines were kindly provided by Gail Martin.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Thomas Pratt, Centre for Integrative Physiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK. t.pratt{at}ed.ac.uk
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