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magenta and green microscopy image of a chicken embryo cranial region
Avian neural crest migrating

Multiplexed HCR staining for Sox10 and Twist1 at HH10. Sox10 is expressed by migrating neural crest cells and Twist1 is expressed by the underlying cranial mesoderm.

GIF of migrating cells marked by membrane GFP
Somite progenitor explant migrating

Cells are mosaically marked by electroporation of a membrane GFP construct.

Duplicated embryonic avian wing
Duplicated digit and feather patterns

Wing resulting from ZPA transplant to the anterior margin of the limb bud. Both the digit pattern and the feather pattern are perfectly duplicated in the AP axis.

GIF of early C. elegans embryo
C. elegans early cell divisions

Histones are labelled in magenta and microtubules are labelled in cyan.

Brightfield image of early cichlid embryo
Astatotilapia calliptera embryo

Brightfield image at 7dpf. The embryo is wrapped around the large cylindrical yolk.

GIF of migrating frog neural crest cells
Xenopus laevis neural crest explant

Neural crest cells from membrane-GFP transgenic migrating on fibronectin.

Microscopy image of somites with grafted tissue in green
Avian somite progenitor transplant

Somite progenitor cells were transplanted from a GFP transgenic embryo into a wildtype embryo. The image shows nuclei in white and transplanted tissue in green - cells have incorporated into the medial somite.

GIF of snail epiboly with membranes and histones marked
Crepidula fornicata epiboly

Embryo injected with membrane GFP (cyan) and H2B-RFP (magenta) constructs and imaged for 24 hours.

Microscopy image of stained zebrafish embryo
Danio rerio cranial region

24hpf embryo stained for sox10 (green), ets1 (yellow) and twist1a (magenta) transcripts.

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