Confocal microscopy of a newly identified protein associated with heart development in the Mexican axolotl.

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Recessive mutant gene c for "'cardiac nonfunction" in the mexican axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum, results in a failure of affected embryos to develop contracting hearts. Mutant embryos survive approximately 4 weeks after fertilization, but eventually die from a lack of circulation. Morphological studies show that mutant hearts lack organized sarcomeric myofibrils. This abnormality can be corrected by co-culturing...

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