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Figure 6-19.
Development of the jaw and branchial muscles of medaka embryos at stages 34 A, 36 B, 38 (C and D), and 40 E. Green fluorescent protein is expressed in the skeletal muscle fibers. aahh, abductor, and adductor hyohyoideus; am, adductor mandibulae; ah, adductor hyomandibulae; ao, adductor operculi; dilator operculi; hhi, hyohyoideus inferior; ih, interhyoideus; ima, intermandibularis anterior; imp, intermandibularis posterior; lap, levator arcus palatini; sh, sternohyoideus; tv, transversus ventralis.