Morphological diversity of blastula formation and gastrulation in temnopleurid sea urchins

Embryos of temnopleurid sea urchins exhibit species-specific morphologies. While Temnopleurus toreumaticus has a wrinkled blastula and then invaginates continuously at gastrulation, others have a smooth blastula and their invagination is stepwise. We studied blastula and gastrula formation in four t...

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Main Authors: Chisato Kitazawa, Tsubasa Fujii, Yuji Egusa, Miéko Komatsu, Akira Yamanaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Company of Biologists 2016-11-01
Series:Biology Open
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Online Access:http://bio.biologists.org/content/5/11/1555