Processes of Localization in Developing Fundulus.
Processes of Localization in Developing Fundulus.
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眼底发育的本地化过程。
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.21.9.551
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发表时间:
1935
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Jane M. Oppenheimer
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作者:
Jane M. Oppenheimer
Localized vital staining has been used to study developing Fundulus, in order to ascertain, first, the early localization of embryonic organs in the cleaving egg, and second, the movements by which the cells forming these organs attain their final position in the embryo. The technique employed' varies slightly from that originated by Vogt.2 The results show that the long axis of the embryo does not necessarily coincide with the first or second plane of cleavage, and hence that any mosaic which exists in the cleaving egg is independent of the position of the planes of cleavage. Further, the presumptive forebrain material has in some cases been traced to one or two of the central cells of the sixteen-cell stage, and part of the germ-ring to the outer half of marginal cells of the same stage. Finally, gastrulation in Fundulus, while fundamentally of the same type as in the amphibian (Vogt3) and the trout (Pasteels4), is accompanied by accessory processes not described for the other forms. At the completion of cleavage in Fundulus, the blastoderm is a homogeneous cap of cells covering a small surface of the large uncleaved yolk. Accompanying or preceding the onset of gastrulation, the cells of the blastoderm concentrate at the periphery to form the germ-ring, leaving a central area of fewer cells. The central area is slightly eccentric, since the thickened rim of the blastoderm is wider than elsewhere at the region of the future embryonic axis. At this localized region invagination predominates, accompanied by a concentration of cells which forms the embryonic axis. This accumulation of cells is the embryonic shield, a plate of closely packed cells, which is sharply distinguished from the extra-embryonic membrane constituting the remainder of the blastoderm. The staining experiments show that the cells whose derivatives form most of the nervous system are localized early in the embryonic shield; they VOL. 21, 1935 551