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SUBMITTER: Gregory C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3855702 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gregory Clint C Veeman Michael M
PloS one 20131206 12
Ascidians such as Ciona are close chordate relatives of the vertebrates with small, simple embryonic body plans and small, simple genomes. The tractable size of the embryo offers considerable advantages for in toto imaging and quantitative analysis of morphogenesis. For functional studies, Ciona eggs are considerably more challenging to microinject than the much larger eggs of other model organisms such as zebrafish and Xenopus. One of the key difficulties is in restraining the eggs so that the ...[more]