College of Life Sciences, Northwest Normal University

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Developmental Biology

Separation of Follicular Cells and Oocytes in Ovarian Follicles of Zebrafish

Wenyi Wang¹, Tao Kang¹, Lin Bai¹, Wei Hu², Yayoi Obata³, Jianzhen Li¹

¹College of Life Sciences, Northwest Normal University, ²State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ³Department of Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture

Here, we present a simple method for separating follicular cells and oocytes in zebrafish ovarian follicles, which will facilitate investigations of ovarian development in zebrafish.