Serial section images of Oikopleura dioica larva using SBF-SEM

The larvacean, Oikopleura dioica is a planktonic chordate, which is an
emerging model organism with short life cycle of 5 days and belongs to
tunicates (urochordates). Organ formation in the trunk proceeds in seven
hours form hatching of tailbud larvae at three hours after fertilization
(hpf) to completion of organ formation in fully functional juveniles that
start feeding at 10 hpf and are just miniature of adult form. The dataset
is serial section images of Oikopleura dioica juvenile that were obtained
using SBF-SEM (Serial block face scanning electron microscopy). The 1812
TIFF images were compressed to a zip file. The larva were fixed at 3 hours
post fertilization, 10 min after hatching (Nishida, H., 2008 Development
of the appendicularian Oikopleura dioica: culture, genome, and cell
lineages. Dev. Growth Differ. 50, S239–S256.). The dataset would be used
as a basic morphological data of this animal to explore organ structures
and cellular composition at electron microscopic level. This data is
related to the paper, 3D reconstruction of structures of hatched larva and
young juvenile of the larvacean Oikopleura dioica using SBF-SEM.
(Scientific Reports, 2021, 11, 4833)
(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83706-y).