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Chapters
- 00:00Title
- 00:14Introduction
- 01:07Introduction: Animal Culture
- 03:11Procedure: Removing a Single Cell from the 8 Cell Stage during Parhyale Development
- 04:37Gathering Embryos: Materials
- 06:14Ablating g: Materials
- 07:07Ablating g: Procedure
- 10:18Representative Results
The amphipod Parhyale hawaiensis is a promising model organism for studies of crustacean embryology and comparative arthropod development and evolution. This protocol describes a method for manual removal of single blastomeres from early cleavage stage embryos of Parhyale.
