Animal development-lower vertebrates Flashcards
General overview if animal development
fertilization
fusion of egg and sperm (formation of the zygote)
cellular cleavage
- formation of blastula
- Under maternal control (especially in lower vertebrates)
Gastrulation
formation of the three germ layers-ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm
Organogenesis
- organ formation
- Under zygotic control
Maternal sygotic transition (MZT)
- activation of zygoticgene expression
- cell cycle slows down
- Tissue movements initiate
Descruptive enbryology terms
- The animal- vegetak axis
Early Xenopus
Zygote-8 cell- mid blastula- early gastrula- mid gastrula- early neurula- late neurula
Mid blastula
Actication of zygotic gene expression
Cleavage stage
- 1st and 2nd cleavage= vertical
- 3rd cleavage= equatorial (closer to animal pole)
- cells of the blastula= blastomeres
- cavity that form at the center of the blastula= blastocoel
Notice the cells at the vegetal poel are larger why is this so?
- more cells
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- lewis wolpert
What is gastrulation?
- Formation of the three primary germ layers
- Ectoderm, Mesoderm, and Endoderm
The nechanism of gatrulation can vary among species
- Invertebrates
- lowe invertebrates (frogs and fish)
- higher vertebrates (birds and mammals)
Important tissue movements involved in gastrulation
Invagination: Inforlding of cell sheet into embryo
- Sea urchins
- fruit dlies
Involution:
- Inturning of cell sheet over the basal surface of an outer layer
- Frogs
- fish
Ingression
- Migration of individual cells into the embryo
- Amniotes
- birds and mammals
Apical construction of epithelial cells lead to tissue invagination
- note: this involves the actin cytoskeleton at apicla face (red)
Fate map of the frog (xenopus) blastula
Axial
- notochord (important signaling tissue for inducing the CNS and somites)