Vimeo user “Ectopher” posted a beautiful video of beating embryonic anole hearts. You can even see the blood flow through the branchial arches at one point. Check it out here.
Thom Sanger is an Assistant Professor at Loyola University in Chicago. His lab specializes on understanding the developmental bases of Anolis lizard diversity.
Latest posts by Thomas Sanger (see all)
- Short Faces, Two Faces, No Faces: Lizards Heads Are Susceptible to Embryonic Thermal Stress - December 15, 2021
- The Super Sticky Super Power of Lizards: a New Outreach Activity for Grade-Schoolers - April 9, 2018
- Updates on the Development of Anolis as a “Model Clade” of Integrative Analyses of Anatomical Evolution - September 4, 2017
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After some brief detective work on Twitter I have learned that these videos were taken by Catherine May while an undergrad in Kenro Kusumi’s lab at ASU. Thanks Catherine!
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Another video of an anole embryo from the great Catherine May: