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Capítulos
- 00:05Título
- 00:39Dissecting the Branchial Skeleton
- 04:55Mounting the Branchial Skeleton
- 06:37Results: Visualizing the Flat-mounted Branchial Skeleton
- 07:24Conclusion
The branchial skeleton, including gill rakers, pharyngeal teeth, and branchial bones, serves as the primary site of food processing in most fish. Here we describe a protocol to dissect and flat-mount this internal skeleton in threespine sticklebacks. This method is also applicable to a variety of other fish species.
