About the Authors

Claire M. Lye

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Guy B. Blanchard

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Huw W. Naylor

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Leila Muresan

Affiliation Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jan Huisken

Affiliation Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Richard J. Adams

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Bénédicte Sanson

bs251@cam.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BS CML. Performed the experiments: CML HWN. Analyzed the data: CML HWN LM GBB RJA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GBB RJA LM JH. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: BS. Developed the 'oTracks' software and provided expertise for cell tracking and deformation analyses: GBB RJA. Developed the statistical analysis: RJA. Developed the optical flow analysis for laser ablation: LM. Provided access to a custom-made mSPIM system and expertise on whole embryo movie acquisition and reconstruction: JH.