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Iontophoretic injection of lucifer yellow CH into zygotes and blastomeres of the hydroidHydractinia echinata
Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen volume 39, pages 49–53 (1985)
Abstract
The dye Lucifer yellow CH was iontophoresed into recently fertilized eggs and early blastomeres ofHydractinia echinata. Iontophoresis was carried out on the stage of an inverted microscope in order to follow filling of the injected cells by short pulses of epifluorescent illumination. Lucifer yellow proved to be nontoxic and development in embryos with injected blastomeres proceeded normally. When zygotes were injected all the cells of the forming embryo contained dye. When one of the first two blastomeres was injected all the progeny of the injected cell also contained dye. Dye-coupling between injected and uninjected blastomeres did not occur in two-cell embryos nor between descendants of either line. Development of Lucifer-yellow-filled blastomeres or zygotes could be stopped by blue light irradiation. In a number of injected cells, the dye tended to accumulate forming brightly shining spots. The dye did not penetrate the nuclear envelope of injected cells.
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Pfannenstiel, H.D. Iontophoretic injection of lucifer yellow CH into zygotes and blastomeres of the hydroidHydractinia echinata . Helgolander Meeresunters 39, 49–53 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01997519
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