Automated detection and quantification of single RNAs at cellular resolution in zebrafish embryos

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 530-539

  Carine Stapel, L ^a   Lombardot, Benoit ^a   Broaddus, Coleman ^a   Kainmueller, Dagmar ^a   Jug, Florian ^a   Myers, Eugene W ^a   Vastenhouw, Nadine L ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell segmentation; Gene expression; Image analysis pipeline; SmFISH; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EMBRYO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL MEMBRANE; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NONMAMMALIAN EMBRYO; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; CELL MEMBRANE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84956651909     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.128918     Document Type: Article

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