Preparation

Nervous system of an oyster late veliger Crassostrea gigas (Mollusca, Bivalvia).

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Collection 24

Collection
Number

IBR-LPN-LALM-0-8

Species: Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793)    Bivalvia

Preparation Type: whole mount

Prepared: L.P. Nezlin, E.E. Voronezhskaya

Description: Whole mount of a Crassostrea gigas late veliger, stained with antibodies against FMRF-amide, 9 days after fertilisation.

Method: FMRFamide

Method Description: The staining method and protocol are described in detail in: Yurchenko O.V., Skiteva O., Voronezhskaya E. E., Dyachuk V.A. 2017. Nervous system development in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas: comparative analysis of early neurogenesis in marine bivalves // Journal of Comparative Neurology. In press.

Institution: A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology of the Far Eastern Branch RAS

 

 

 

Series
of images

Nervous system of an oyster late veliger Crassostrea gigas (Mollusca, Bivalvia).

Preparation

IBR-LPN-LALM-0-8

Description: Original image is combined with 3D reconstruction of the apical organ, cerebral ganglia complex and the ventral nerve cords.

Organs: larval nervous system

Methods: Immunohistochemistry - FMRFamide

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