Movie 2

Exemplifying videos #1-4 of RBC splitting in the zebrafish embryo. RBCs are tangling up and splitting at a vascular pole. Time interval is indicated as min:sec. The videos were all captured between 39-45 hpf.

Splitting of circulating red blood cells as an in vivo mechanism of erythrocyte maturation in developing zebrafish, chick and mouse embryos

Daniel Brönnimann, Tiziana Annese, Thomas A. Gorr, and Valentin Djonov

Journal of Experimental Biology 2018. 221:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.184564