Nematode Gastrulation: Having a BLASTocoel

During gastrulation of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, individual cells ingress into a solid ball of cells. Gastrulation in a basal nematode, in contrast, has now been found to occur by invagination into a blastocoel, revealing an unanticipated embryological affinity between nematodes and...

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Published inCurrent biology Vol. 15; no. 13; pp. R495 - R498
Main Authors Joshi, Pradeep M., Rothman, Joel H.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Inc 12.07.2005
Subjects
Animals
Caenorhabditis elegans - embryology
Cell Movement - physiology
Embryonic Development - physiology
Gastrula - cytology
Gastrula - physiology
Models, Biological
Phylogeny
Species Specificity
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Summary:During gastrulation of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, individual cells ingress into a solid ball of cells. Gastrulation in a basal nematode, in contrast, has now been found to occur by invagination into a blastocoel, revealing an unanticipated embryological affinity between nematodes and all other triploblastic metazoans.
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ISSN:0960-9822
1879-0445
DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2005.06.030