If You Hold a Tunicate By The Tail, You Learn Things That You Cannot Learn Any Other Way

Year: 
2015
Ranking: 
Entrant
Artist: 
Delany Rodriguez (Postdoc)
Department: 
MCDB
Lab: 
DeTomaso Lab

Description

In tunicates, the notochord exists during both the embryonic and free-swimming larval stages, providing the axial structural support necessary for locomotion. The tail of the larva can be studied to better understand the evolution of the notochord. This is image shows the head and the tail of a Botryllus schlosseri larva that has been processed by immuno-fluoresence to show the protein Par6 (in green) and the nuclei of the cells are stained with the dye DAPI (blue). The image was acquired using confocal microscopy.

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