Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 5, 2019, 1:08 p.m.
...recombine independently, cells may acquire one of a variety of colors when a combination of XFP are expressed...systems, many based on Brainbow, now exist for a variety of species, cell types, and research applications...inversion of two genes aligned head-to-head. Another variation, Brainbow 2.1, uses Cre to trigger the inversion...similar systems have been developed for tracking various cell types and organisms and for improving the ...developed from the Brainbow 1.0-L construct, a variant of Brainbow 1.0 that contains RFP, CFP, and YFP...labeling systems allow single cell dynamics in a variety of organisms to be observed in more detail than...