Ciona intestinalis early embryonic development


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2007-06-04 09:54:50

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64 cell stage (4 hours). The animal blastomeres have now also undergone a sixth cleavage. Seen from the animal pole, the embryo has a rather square shape with A7.8 and B7.4 blastomeres bulging out.

Two-headed arrows indicate the pair of daughter cells. The number of cell-lineages are drawn on each blastomere. Scale bar = 50 micro m.