Zebrafish embryos with green fluorescent myotomes
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Subject
- Muscle,
- Green fluorescent protein,
- Model organism,
- Development,
- Embryo,
- Yolk,
- Vertebrate,
- Fruit fly,
- Polarity,
- Oocyte,
- Actin,
- Test
Description
Transgenic zebrafish embryos expressing green fluorescent protein in the muscle precursor cells (myotomes). The green fluorescence comes from an alpha-actin-GFP transgene acting in these living, one day old embryos. Biomedical Image Awards 2005.
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Credit: S. Roy & S Higashijima
Free to use with attribution for non-commercial purposes
