<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>We are wondering about the best red fluorescent reporter to make transgenic zebrafish with.</div><div>If one does not want to target the protein to a particular compartment (membrane or nucleus), DsRed2, the most used presently, is probably the best (very bright, with reasonable maturation time).</div><div>If otherwise, the most used presently is mCherry, which is quite (4-fold) less bright. </div><div>Now from the Tsien lab papers' data, td-Tomato appears both much (over 5-fold) brighter than mCherry, and still compatible with membrane or nuclear targeting; </div><div>and indeed at least two papers then provided evidence that td-tomato was not only far superior to mcherry but even to GFP (in terms of brightness) as a reporter in transgenic mice.</div><div>Now surprisingly, when a colleague of us injected either mcherry or tdtomato mRNA into 1-cell zebrafish embryos,</div><div>she found td-Tomato to be less bright than mcherry.</div><div>So my question is: has anyone found this too, and/or tried to make transgenic zebrafish with td-Tomato as reporter ? 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