Equipment


The main room of the facility houses 23 of 8 multi-level racks holding 3 liters tanks and 19 of 5 multi-level glass racks for zebrafish and medaka. Additionally there are 2 of 3 multi-level racks for Xenopus laevis and 1 of 8 multi-level rack for Xenopus Tropicalis.

Fig: The CABD-UPO Aquatic Vertebrates Platform - Tanks : Zebra Medaka
Fig: The CABD-UPO Aquatic Vertebrates Platform - Tanks : Xenopus

The facility has three microinjection/transplantation stations, each of them including a stereo-microscope, a manipulator, and a high precision injection pump.

Fig: The CABD-UPO Aquatic Vertebrate Platform - Injection