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Anatomical Dissection of Zebrafish Brain Development

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Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1082))

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Zebrafishbrain.org is an online neuroanatomical atlas of the embryonic zebrafish. The atlas uses high-resolution confocal images and movies of transgenic lines to describe different brain structures. This chapter covers detail of materials and protocols that we employ to generate data for the atlas.

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Turner, K.J., Bracewell, T.G., Hawkins, T.A. (2014). Anatomical Dissection of Zebrafish Brain Development. In: Sprecher, S. (eds) Brain Development. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1082. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-655-9_14

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