NUCLEAR TRANSPLANTATION STUDIES ON THE EARLY GASTRULA (RANA-PIPIENS) .1. NUCLEI OF PRESUMPTIVE ENDODERM
NUCLEAR TRANSPLANTATION STUDIES ON THE EARLY GASTRULA (RANA-PIPIENS) .1. NUCLEI OF PRESUMPTIVE ENDODERM
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DOI:
10.1016/0012-1606(60)90008-7
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发表时间:
1960-01-01
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
KING, TJ
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作者:
BRIGS, R;KING, TJ
Previous studies showed that nuclear changes associated with endodermal differentiation are well advanced at late gastrula stage. The purpose of the present investigation was to determine when in development this process of nuclear "differentiation" begins. Presumptive endoderm nuclei from the vegetal pole region of early gastrulae were tested by transplantation into enucleated eggs. For comparison, control transfers were performed with nuclei from the undetermined animal pole region of blastulae. The recipient eggs developed as follows (1) Cleavage: Control and experimental transfers gave about the same results. Approximately 60% of the transfers in each series led to the formation of complete blastulae. (2) Embryonic differentiation: 80% of the complete blastulae resulting from the control transfers developed normally to larval stages. In the case of the transfers of presumptive endoderm nuclei, 52% of the blastulae developed normally. The majority of the remaining embryos displayed abnormalities in postneurula stages and failed to attain the larval stage. A few of these abnormal embryos showed extreme deficiencies in the ectodermal derivatives. In the majority, however, the deficiencies were not related to the endodermal origin of the nuclei in any obvious fashion. (3) Larval development: All embryos which passed through the embryonic stages normally were reared until they died or reached metamorphosis. In their larval development the nuclear-transplant animals did not differ from their normally fertilized controls. The results of these experiments (see 2, above) indicate that endodermal nuclear differentiation begins at about the early gastrula stage, but involves at first only a minority of the nuclei.