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M Zalokar

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PubMed1984

Tracing of cell lineage in embryonic development of Phallusia mammillata (Ascidia) by vital staining of mitochondria.

Vital staining of mitochondria with a fluorescent dye 3,3'-diethyloxacarbocyanine was used to follow cell lineage in embryos of Phallusia mammillata. The results agree in general with the plan established by Conklin in 1905. Strong fluorescence migrated after fertilization similarly to the pigment of the "yellow crescent" in Styela. Later, fluorescence segregated into muscle cell primordia, but not into mesenchyme cells. An animal hemisphere cell, b 8.17 also exhibited strong fluorescence and joined a group of muscle primordia, very likely becoming a muscle cell itself. In the tadpole, all the tail muscle cells were fluorescent. Fluorescence was also noticed in nerve cell primordia of the vegetal hemisphere, particularly in the cell A 8.16 whose descendants appeared to become part of the sensory vesicle which was strongly fluorescent in the tadpole. The usefulness of this type of vital staining in following cell lineage of colorless embryos is stressed.

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PubMed1980

Distribution of ring-X chromosomes in the blastoderm of gynandromorphic D. melanogaster.

Embryos of the D. melanogaster strain producing gynandromorphs by loss of the ring-X chromosome were treated with vinblastine to obtain blastoderms with all mitoses arrested in metaphase, and with tetracaine to improve the resolution of chromosomes. Ring-X and ringless mitoses were recorded in the major part of the blastoderm in 18 eggs. Limits between females and male areas were very irregular and some embryos had several isolated areas of one type or the other. The proportion of male nuclei varied from 80.8 to 0.4%, indicating that there must have been more than one loss of the ring-X in most of the eggs and that losses occurred as late as the ninth division. When the percentages of male nuclei were compared with theoretical values, all the observed percentages could be accounted for by two losses. In early cleavages the lost ring could be found halfway between ringless mitoses. Examination of chromosomes in the three polar nuclei showed that the ring often remained undivided in meiosis. If the resulting ringless haploid group became a female pronucleus, an XO or YO embryo was produced after fertilization. We propose a hypothesis to explain the two losses.

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PubMed1977

Phase-partition fixation and staining of Drosophila eggs.

Aqueous solutions of alcohol-acetic acid-formalin or glutaraldehyde-acrolein were shaken with heptane and heptane phase used for fixation. Phase-partition fixation is akin to fixation with vapor. The organic solvent, immiscible with water, penetrates hydrophobic membranes and carries the fixative in contact with water phase of the tissue. Only the fixative enters the tissue, without changing the ionic and water-soluble substance concentrations in the tissue. The quality of this fixation for optical or electron microscopy was as good as that of any conventional fixation method. Staining with basic fuchsin after 2 N HCl hydrolysis gave brilliant staining of nuclei, more intense than that with Feulgen reagent, while cytoplasm remained nearly colorless. Fixing and staining procedures for Drosophila eggs are given.

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PubMed1971

Transplantation of nucle in Drosophila melanogaster.

Nuclei surrounded by ooplasm of the syncytial stage of developing eggs of wild-type Drosophila melanogaster were implanted into freshly laid fertilized eggs of females of a y w stock. More than half of the recipient eggs produced larvae, but few of the larvae hatched or developed further. The best sets of experiments gave about twelve percent of imagos, mostly y w in appearance. Several larvae were mosaics with yellow Malpighian tubes, and two flies had part of the abdominal segments of the wild type. Half of the flies were fertile, but they produced only y w offspring, except for two males that had y w appearance, but wild-type gonads. When crossed with y w females, they gave wild-type females and y w males.

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PubMed1969

Intracellular centrifugal separation of organelles in Phycomyces.

Live sporangiophores of Phycomyces blakesleeanus were centrifuged at 35,000 rpm. The cell contents sedimented into distinct layers, and each layer was studied with an electron microscope and with cytochemical methods. The following layers were found (their volumes and their densities are shown in Fig. 3): 1. polyphosphates; 2. polyphosphates and protein crystals; 3. glycogen; 4. yellow layer with ferritin; 5. ribosomes; 6. protein crystals; 7. mitochondria; 8. mitochondria and fibrils; 9. nuclei; 10. endoplasmic reticulum; 11. vesicles, membranes, and reticulum; 12. vacuole; 13. lipoproteins, membranes; 14. fat droplet. The densities of the various layers were determined by the injection of droplets of inert oils of known density into the sporangiosphores before centrifugation. Sedimented cell organelles could be isolated. Centrifuged nuclei of a lycopene-producing mutant were injected into the intact sporangiophore of an albino host where they induced color formation. The ensuing spores, when plated, gave a mixture of white and colored colonies. It was concluded that cell organelles, sedimented by centrifugation of living sporangiophores, remain alive and can be used for biochemical studies. Microspectrophotometric examination of the layers indicated the presence of cytochromes and flavines in the mitochondria and of cytochromes in the nuclei. No pigments corresponding to the action spectrum for the light growth response were found.

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PubMed1969

Phycomyces.

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