Credit: Philipp Keller Lab, HHMI Janelia Research Campus
Digital fruit fly embryo, reconstructed from live imaging data recorded with a SiMView light-sheet microscope (top: dorsal view, bottom: ventral view). Each colored circle in the image shows one of the embryo’s cells, and the corresponding tail indicates that cell’s movement over a short time interval during early embryogenesis (at around 3 hours post fertilization). The information on cell positions and movements throughout the embryo was reconstructed using a computational framework for automated cell tracking. Color encodes the developmental origin of each cell in the early embryo.