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Bellymount enables longitudinal, intravital imaging of abdominal organs and the gut microbiota in adult Drosophila.

ABSTRACT: Cell- and tissue-level processes often occur across days or weeks, but few imaging methods can capture such long timescales. Here, we describe Bellymount, a simple, noninvasive method for longitudinal imaging of the Drosophila abdomen at subcellular resolution. Bellymounted animals remain live and intact, so the same individual can be imaged serially to yield vivid time series of multiday processes. This feature opens the door to longitudinal studies of Drosophila internal organs in their native context. Exploiting Bellymount's capabilities, we track intestinal stem cell lineages and gut microbial colonization in single animals, revealing spatiotemporal dynamics undetectable by previously available methods.

SUBMITTER: Koyama LAJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7004386 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Bellymount enables longitudinal, intravital imaging of abdominal organs and the gut microbiota in adult Drosophila.

Koyama Leslie Ann Jaramillo LAJ Aranda-Díaz Andrés A Su Yu-Han YH Balachandra Shruthi S Martin Judy Lisette JL Ludington William B WB Huang Kerwyn Casey KC O'Brien Lucy Erin LE

PLoS biology 20200127 1

Cell- and tissue-level processes often occur across days or weeks, but few imaging methods can capture such long timescales. Here, we describe Bellymount, a simple, noninvasive method for longitudinal imaging of the Drosophila abdomen at subcellular resolution. Bellymounted animals remain live and intact, so the same individual can be imaged serially to yield vivid time series of multiday processes. This feature opens the door to longitudinal studies of Drosophila internal organs in their native ...[more]

PMID: 31986129

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Bellymount enables longitudinal, intravital imaging of abdominal organs and the gut microbiota in adult Drosophila.

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Bellymount enables longitudinal, intravital imaging of abdominal organs and the gut microbiota in adult Drosophila.

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