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Xenopus embryo development (video)
Category: Basic Biology
Posted on: October 22, 2008 8:19 AM, by Coturnix












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This series of videos on the development, one each morning this week, were discovered by my BIO101 students.
Posted by: Coturnix | October 22, 2008 2:06 PM
Wooooooaaaaaahhhhhhh. Beyond awesome. What's the time span on this?
Posted by: Mad Hussein LOLscientist, FCD | October 22, 2008 2:57 PM
Very nice!
The time post-fertilization at "room temperature":
2-cell: 90 minutes
32-cell: 3 hours
blastula: 4-7 hours
gastrulation begins: 9 hours (hard to see in the video)
the final stage shown looks like about 1.5 day-old tailbud.
See drawings of the stages. And a bunch more movies of Xenopus development.
Posted by: Peggy | October 22, 2008 3:27 PM
Awesome Video! Does anyone know the life expectancy of a xenopus? Mine is at least 23 years old.
Posted by: Linda | August 25, 2009 7:32 PM