Small flies: For this Kandinsky - like image, researchers stained cross sections of 20 fruit
fly embryos with antibodies to reveal three distinct tissue types: muscle, nerve and skin.
Not exact matches
This is digital fruit
fly embryo, reconstructed from live imaging data recorded
with a SiMView light - sheet microscope (top: dorsal view, bottom: ventral view).
Many biological specimens, like the fruit
fly embryo, are so opaque that they scatter large numbers of photons, filling pictures
with static.
Carroll, a University of Wisconsin geneticist, describes this emerging field in a lively work colorfully illustrated
with images of
fly embryos and butterfly wings.
The microscope image of the dorsal closure of a
fly embryo shows alter - nating stripes of epithelial cells
with aligned microtubule bundles (green) and epithelial cells treated
with a microtubule - destroying drug (blue).
Homozygous rum
flies show no obvious defects, but homozygous females produce
embryos with terminal defects resembling those of rum germline clone - derived
embryos.