Tracing blastomere fate choices of early embryos in single cell culture

Division of Bioengineering, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 70 Nanyang Drive, 10 Singapore 637457 12 *These authors contributed equally to this work 14 **Correspondence: 16 Professor Yunhan Hong (dbshyh@nus.edu.sg) Professor Jianxin Song (jianxin_song@nuhs.edu.sg) 18 Department of Biological Sciences National University of Singapore 20 14 Science Drive 4 Singapore 117543 22 Fax: +65 6779 2486; Tel: +65 6516 2915 24 Key words: blastomere, cleavage, fate tracing, neural crest, pigment, single cell culture, yolk syncytium 26 28