Ciona egg before and after fertilization (VIDEO)

Marine Biological Laboratory

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Left: Ciona egg before and after fertilization (Movie of Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy [TIRFM] images; F-actin probe is AF488-phalloidin). Right: Transient changes of F-actin alignments from the time before fertilization to the first cell division of Ciona egg. Positions of AF488-phalloidin particles bound to F-actin are shown as yellow dots, and the orientation of F-actin is shown as yellow bars. Frame intervals, 10s. Replay speed, 15 frames/s.

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Hiro Ishii and Tomomi Tani

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