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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 28.
Published in final edited form as: Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2010 Dec 1;2010(12):pdb.prot5540. doi: 10.1101/pdb.prot5540

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Isolation of C. elegans embryos and preparation for mounting on a slide. (A,B) Gravid hermaphrodites are cut in half with 27 × 1/2-in. needles. (C) At a higher magnification, embryos are sorted and are grouped using an eye- lash. (D) Embryos and M9 buffer are transferred using a mouth pipette.