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High-Resolution C. elegans Imaging Across All Larval Stages
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2025
This protocol describes microfluidic-based C. elegans time-lapse imaging across the entire post-embryonic development.
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Sonication-facilitated Immunofluorescence Staining of Late-stage Embryonic and Larval Drosophila Tissues In Situ
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2014
Immunostaining is an effective technique for visualizing specific cell types and proteins within tissues. By utilizing sonication, the protocol described here alleviates the need to dissect Drosophila melanogaster tissues from late-stage embryos and larvae before immunostaining. We provide an efficient methodology for the immunostaining of formaldehyde-fixed whole mount larvae.
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Functional Analysis of the Larval Feeding Circuit in Drosophila
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2013
The feeding circuit in Drosophila melanogaster larvae serves a simple yet powerful model that allows changes in feeding rate to be correlated with alterations in the stomatogastric neural circuitry. This circuit is composed of central serotonergic neurons that send projections to the mouth hooks as well as the foregut.
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Drosophila Larval IHC
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2023
Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is a technique used to visualize the presence and location of proteins within tissues. Drosophila larvae are particularly amenable to IHC because of the ease with which they can be processed for staining. Additionally, the larvae are transparent, meaning that some tissues can be visualized without the need for dissection. In IHC, proteins are ultimately detected with antibodies that specifically bind to “epitopes” within the protein of interest. In order to preserve...
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Analysis of Embryonic and Larval Zebrafish Skeletal Myofibers from Dissociated Preparations
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2013
Zebrafish are an emerging system for modeling human disorders of the skeletal muscle. We describe a fast and efficient method to isolate skeletal muscle myofibers from embryonic and larval zebrafish. This method yields a high-density myofiber preparation suitable for study of single skeletal muscle fiber morphology, protein subcellular localization, and muscle physiology.
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Larval size, morphology, behavior, development rate, and abundance provide complementary evidence of how early life stages respond to surrounding conditions. Size and morphology can indicate developmental variation, while behavior and development rate add information about functional or timing-related changes. Abundance contributes a population-level perspective, especially when interpreted with habitat quality, food availability, salinity, temperature, or pollutant exposure.
Researchers can detect potential stress responses by relating differences in larval measurements to the conditions present during development. For example, variation in size, morphology, behavior, development rate, or abundance can be examined against temperature, salinity, food availability, habitat quality, and pollutant exposure. This comparison helps connect observed larval patterns with environmental variability rather than treating the measurements as isolated observations.
Larval abundance provides information that can be connected to population recruitment, the addition of individuals to a population. Examining abundance alongside development rate, morphology, and habitat conditions helps researchers evaluate whether environmental differences coincide with changes in early-life population representation. This perspective is useful for understanding how habitat quality and environmental change may influence longer-term species persistence.
An analysis begins by examining larvae and recording traits such as size, morphology, behavior, development rate, and abundance. Researchers then relate differences in those measurements to relevant environmental conditions, including temperature, salinity, food availability, habitat quality, or pollutant exposure. Organizing the observations this way allows the study to identify patterns of environmental sensitivity and assess how conditions correspond with larval performance.
It is useful when researchers need indicators of ecosystem conditions or want to evaluate how habitats affect developing organisms. Larval observations can support ecological monitoring by revealing variation in abundance, development, morphology, behavior, or size across environmental settings. The same evidence can help identify stress responses and compare conditions relevant to habitat quality, making early developmental measurements informative for environmental assessment.
Results can contribute to conservation planning by showing how changing habitats relate to larval development, survival, and population recruitment. When researchers connect larval variation with habitat quality or other environmental conditions, they gain evidence about factors associated with species persistence. This context also supports evaluating environmental change across life cycles, rather than considering habitat conditions separately from biological development.