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Fluorescent Protein Expression in Zebrafish Embryos

Fluorescent Protein Expression in Zebrafish Embryos

Spectral variants of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) are quite useful for double or triple labeling experiments or when targeting fluorescence expression with a particular laser system. The confocal image presented above is a three-dimensional volume render made from 5-micrometer serial optical sections of a zebrafish embryo labeled with a red fluorescent protein (dsRED). The image was provided by Yasuhiro Kamei and Shunsuke Yuba of the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology at Osaka University, in Japan.