A comparison of the gene expression between the lens and body without eyes of larval zebrafish

The lens of the eye is consisted of lens fiber cells that undergo large-scale organelle degradation during terminal differentiation. To understand the molecular mechanism of large-scale organelle degradation, we compared the gene expression profiles between the lens and body without eyes of larval zebrafish using a microarray analysis. Gene expression was measured using lenses (191 lenses) and bodies without eyes (20 bodies) taken from wild-type zebrafish at 10 days post fertilization.