Confocal Microscopy

Stephen Paddock and a highly skilled panel of experts lead the researcher using confocal techniques from the bench top through the imaging process to the journal page. They concisely describe all the key stages of confocal imaging-from tissue sampling methods through the staining process to the manipulation presentation and publication of the realized image. Written in a user-friendly nontechnical style the methods specifically cover most of the commonly used model organisms: worms sea urchins flies plants yeast frogs and zebrafish. The powerful hands-on methods collected here will help even the novice to produce first-class cover-quality confocal images.