Identification of Germ-Line Stem Cells in Zebrafish
- 13 October 2016
- book chapter
- protocol
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
- Vol. 1463, 103-113
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-4017-2_8
Abstract
Both male and female zebrafish have a population of germ-line stem cells that produce gametes throughout the life of the fish. These cells localize to specific regions in the gonads and can be identified because they uniquely express the nanos2 gene, which encodes a conserved regulator of translation. A method is presented here for identifying germ-line stem cells in the ovary and testis using a combined protocol for whole-mount fluorescent RNA in situ hybridization to detect nanos2 mRNA and immunofluorescence to detect the pan-germ cell marker Vasa.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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