Towards comprehensive cell lineage reconstructions in complex organisms using light-sheet microscopy
| Autor: | Fernando Amat, Philipp J. Keller |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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ved/biology.organism_classification_rank.species Cell Bioimage informatics Computational biology Signal-To-Noise Ratio Mice Image Processing Computer-Assisted Fluorescence microscope medicine Animals Cell Lineage Model organism Zebrafish biology ved/biology Computational Biology Cell Biology Anatomy biology.organism_classification Multicellular organism medicine.anatomical_structure Microscopy Fluorescence Light sheet fluorescence microscopy Drosophila Developmental biology Software Developmental Biology |
| Zdroj: | Development, Growth & Differentiation. 55:563-578 |
| ISSN: | 0012-1592 |
| Popis: | Understanding the development of complex multicellular organisms as a function of the underlying cell behavior is one of the most fundamental goals of developmental biology. The ability to quantitatively follow cell dynamics in entire developing embryos is an indispensable step towards such a system-level understanding. In recent years, light-sheet fluorescence microscopy has emerged as a particularly promising strategy for recording the in vivo data required to realize this goal. Using light-sheet fluorescence microscopy, entire complex organisms can be rapidly imaged in three dimensions at sub-cellular resolution, achieving high temporal sampling and excellent signal-to-noise ratio without damaging the living specimen or bleaching fluorescent markers. The resulting datasets allow following individual cells in vertebrate and higher invertebrate embryos over up to several days of development. However, the complexity and size of these multi-terabyte recordings typically preclude comprehensive manual analyses. Thus, new computational approaches are required to automatically segment cell morphologies, accurately track cell identities and systematically analyze cell behavior throughout embryonic development. We review current efforts in light-sheet microscopy and bioimage informatics towards this goal, and argue that comprehensive cell lineage reconstructions are finally within reach for many key model organisms, including fruit fly, zebrafish and mouse. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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