Hox genes are known for their roles in patterning the anterior-posterior axis of animals. In a recent paper in the journal Development, Žigman, Moens and colleagues uncover a new role for Hoxb1b in regulating cell shape, oriented divisions and microtubule dynamics in the zebrafish neural tube.
The movie shown here is from this paper, and shows cell division behaviour during anterior hindbrain morphogenesis in wild-type and hoxb1b mutants, both in a Tg(h2a.f/z-GFP) transgenic background (12hpf).
You can read the paper here: [ Ссылка ] (Open Access)
