Embryos

Thanks for the reply. I looked at whole embryos and the auto-fluorescence was so weak that it wouldn't even be picked up by our most sensitive cameras. I also suspected the endogenous peroxidase activity but that did not seem to factor in either ...

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... in sex chromosomes or autosomes...AND there are different causes (non-disjunction, translocation errors, mitosis separation failures in early embryos). Plus there are a whole range of syndromes associated with each of these types (i.e. Jacob Syndrome is an aneuploid condition in the sex chromosomes ...

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... been experiencing many weird problems so I hope the brilliant minds here can shed some light on it. The total RNA was extracted from ~100 whole embryos (~1000 cells each) of an invertebrate marine species using QIAGEN RNeasy Plus mini kit eluted with 40ul RNase free water. Nanodrop gives a low ...

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... fine work on this one. Lagendijk AK, Moulton JD, Bakkers J. Revealing details: whole mount microRNA in situ hybridization protocol for zebrafish embryos and adult tissues. Biology Open. 2012;[Advance Online Publication] doi:10.1242/bio.2012810 http://bio.biologists.org/content/early/2012/04/11/bio.2012810.full

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chikis "The embryos (the earliest stage of and development of both plants and animals) of fish, reptile, birds and mammals are very similar and this are evidence that they evolved from a distant common ancestor. Embroyology shows ...

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