The little skate (IMAGE)

Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association

The little skate

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The cartilage of the skate is stained with Alcian blue, the bones with Alizarin red. One of the few places in the world that collects Leucoraja erinacea and breeds it for research, including for the present study, is the Marine Resources Center at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole.

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Photo: David Gold Lynn Kee and Meghan Morrissey, MBL Embryology Course

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