In vivo analysis of cytokinesis in the closing neural tube (from Kieserman et al, 2008, Kieserman et al, 2009):

  1. High-magnification movie of cell divisions in neural plate
  2. Cell divisions and neural tube closure
  3. Mitotic spindle rotations in neural plate
  4. Oriented cell divisions in neural plate
  5. 5-live high-speed imaging of mitotic spindle in neural plate

In vivo imaging of myeloid cell migration in Xenopus

  1. Myeloid cell migration with cell tracking
  2. Myeloid cell migration
  3. Close-up of myeloid cell migration

In vivo imaging of beating cilia on multi-ciliated epithelial cells (from Park et al., 2008):

  1. Control multi-ciliated cell expressing tau-GFP
  2. Multi-ciliated cell expressing Xdd1 (and tau-GFP)

Cellular-resolution movies of Xenopus neural tube closure (see also Lee et al., 2007):

  1. Control embryo
  2. Embryo unilaterally injected with Shroom3 morpholino

Axolotl neural tube closure

Xenopus Dishevelled function in neural tube closure

Xenopus Dishevelled function in the stability and polarity of lamellipodia

Calcium waves during convergent extension:

  1. A movie of a long-range calcium wave in a Xenopus dorsal marginal zone explant.
  2. A close-up of cells involved in a wave, note the tissue contraction.
  3. For the full complement of calcium movies, see the Current Biology Supplemental Data site