Tg(vsx2:GFP)

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Tg(vsx2:GFP) is a transgenic line from Kimura, Okamura and Higashijima (2006). The green flouresencet protein is expressed in retinal progenitor cells from 16 hpf and restricts to Müller glia and bipolr cells from 28 hpf (Vitorino et al., 2009).

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Section of zebrafish retina Tg(vsx2:GFP)

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Expressed in

Retinal progenitor cells

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Key publications

Kimura Y, Okamura Y and Higashijima SI. 2006. alx, a zebrafish homolog of Chx10, marks ipsilateral descending excitatory interneurons that participate in the regulation of spinal locomotor circuits. Journal of Neuroscience. 26:5684-5697.

Vitorino M, Jusuf PR, Maurus D, Kimura Y, Higashijima SI and Harris WA. 2009. Vsx2 in the zebrafish retina: restricted lineages through derepression. Neural Development. 4:1-27.