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Live Imaging Of Drosophila melanogaster Embryonic Hemocyte Migrations
Published on: February 12, 2010
Following the Motion of Polycomb Bodies in Living Drosophila Embryos
Thierry Cheutin1, Giacomo Cavalli2
1Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS UPR 1142, 141, rue de la Cardonille, 34396, Montpellier Cedex 5, France. Thierry.cheutin@igh.cnrs.fr.
Abstract:
During the last two decades, observation of cell nuclei in live microscopy evidences motion of nuclear compartments. Drosophila embryos constitute a good model to study nuclear dynamic during cell differentiation because they can easily be observed in live microscopy. Inside the cell nucleus, Polycomb group proteins accumulate in foci named Pc bodies. Here, we describe a method to visualize and analyze the motion of these nuclear compartments inside cell nuclei of Drosophila embryos.

