Role of mef 2 ca in developmental buffering of the zebrafish larval hyoid dermal skeleton Running title : mef 2 ca developmental buffering

April DeLaurier, Tyler R. Huycke, James T. Nichols, Mary E. Swartz, Ashlin Larsen, Charline Walker, John Dowd, Luyuan Pan, Cecilia B. Moens and Charles B. Kimmel 1. Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, 1254 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1254, USA 2. current address: Department of Biology and Geology, University of South Carolina Aiken, 471 University Parkway, Aiken, SC, 29801. 3. current address: Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St, Gordon 005, Boston, MA 02115. 4. current address: Department of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology and Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 5. Division of Basic Science, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N. PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109, USA 6. Author for correspondence