Dynamic and Polarized Muscle Cell Behaviors Accompany Tail Morphogenesis in the Ascidian Ciona intestinalis
Figure 5
Muscle cell volume during tail extension.
(A) Cross-sectional slices of GPI-GFP labeled muscle cells at the early tailbud stage. The underlying notochord cells are highlighted by coelectroporation of Bra>RFP [11]. (B) Cross-sectional slices of the same muscle and notochord cells at the late tailbud stage. (C) Graph of cell volumes for three muscle cells during tail extension. (D) Graph of changes in anteroposterior length, dorsoventral height and mediolateral width during tail extension in “muscle cell 1” from the previous panel. Scale bars, 10 µm.