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A. Morula and B. cross section of a blastula displaying the blastocoel and blastoderm of early animal embryonic development. Blastulation is the stage in early animal embryonic development that produces the blastula. In mammalian development, the blastula develops into the blastocyst with a differentiated inner cell mass and an outer trophectoderm.
At least four initial cell divisions occur, resulting in a dense ball of at least sixteen cells called the morula. In the early mouse embryo, the sister cells of each division remain connected during interphase by microtubule bridges. [7] The different cells derived from cleavage, up to the blastula stage, are called blastomeres.
The inward migration of these cells, known as bottle cells, leads to the formation of the archenteron, a process analogous to that observed in the gastrulation of sea urchins. Gastrulation in frogs commences in the marginal zone— the region encircling the blastula's equator where the animal and vegetal hemispheres meet—differing from sea ...
Fish embryos go through a process called mid-blastula transition which is observed around the tenth cell division in some fish species. Once zygotic gene transcription starts, slow cell division begins and cell movements are observable. [4] During this time three cell populations become distinguished. The first population is the yolk syncytial ...
This is an embryo 4 hours after fertilization before it has undergone MBT. 3 layers are present: yolk syncytial layer (YSL), enveloping layer (EVL), and deep cells (DEL). Before the embryo undergoes the midblastula transition it is in a state of fast and constant replication of cells. [1] The cell cycle is very short. The cells in the zygote ...
Newer cell fate determination techniques include lineage tracing performed using inducible Cre-lox transgenic mice, where specific cell populations can be experimentally mapped using reporters like brainbow, a colorful reporter that is useful in the brain and other tissues to follow the differentiation path of a cell.
The division of blastomeres from the zygote allows a single fertile cell to continue to cleave and differentiate until a blastocyst forms. The differentiation of the blastomere allows for the development of two distinct cell populations: the inner cell mass, which becomes the precursor to the embryo, and the trophectoderm, which becomes the precursor to the placenta.
Even at this depth, there is an underwater current, with a velocity of 0.5–1 m/s (1.6–3.3 ft/s), that disperses some of the deposited eggs downstream in the tributary system. Fertilized eggs are 3.1–3.25 mm (0.12–0.13 in) in diameter and are held in spaces between rocks as well as in the ice crystals of the slushy, tributary floor. [ 8 ]