Zebrafish lateral line migration HD

Zebrafish lateral line primordium migration leaves behind clusters of cells that will form neuromasts, which are mechanoreceptive organs that allow the fish to detect water movement. Here the cells of the primordium and neuromast clusters are visualized in the Tg(-8.0cldnb:lynEGFP)zf106 transgenic line in which claudin B-GFP fusion protein highlights the cell membranes. Each frame of the movie is a maximum intensity projection of a confocal Z-stack. Lateral view with anterior to the left and ventral down. Movie covers approximately 8 hrs of development. This movie was part of a competition on the Node (http://thenode.biologists.com/) to choose a cover for the journal Development (http://bit.ly/17ay2oA). This movie was made by Eduardo Zattara (University of Maryland, College Park) at the Woods Hole embryology course 2012.