Close-up timelapse of chromosome segregation in an early fish embryo

Slowed down and zoomed-in footage of the mechanisms for copying, aligning, and segregating chromosomes (magenta) into two daughter cells in an gene-edited medaka embryo. The microtubules making up the mitotic spindle are shown in green.

Date:

22 April 2024

Creator:

adrian-skov

Credit:

Ai Kiyomitsu, Cell Division Dynamics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).

Copyright OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, 沖縄科学技術大学院大学). Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

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