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    Gastrulation is the stage in the early embryonic development of most animals, during which the blastula (a single-layered hollow sphere of cells), or in...
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    the three primary germ layers, ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm, during gastrulation. The amniotic ectoderm and extraembryonic mesoderm also originate from...
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    continue its development through the next stages of gastrulation, neurulation, and organogenesis. Gastrulation is the formation of the three germ layers that...
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    primitive streak establishes bilateral symmetry, determines the site of gastrulation, and initiates germ layer formation. To form the primitive streak, mesenchymal...
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  • development of the embryo. Cell movements during amphibian gastrulation In frog embryos, gastrulation initiates at the site identified as the gray crescent...
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    of an organism happens through fertilization, cleavage, blastulation, gastrulation, organogenesis, and metamorphosis into an adult. Each species of animal...
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  • internal cavity of the primitive gastrointestinal tract that forms during gastrulation in a developing animal embryo. It develops into the endoderm and mesoderm...
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    Meckel's diverticulum. In the third week, gastrulation begins with the formation of the primitive streak. Gastrulation occurs when pluripotent stem cells differentiate...
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    Mesoderm (category Gastrulation)
    mesoderm is the middle layer of the three germ layers that develops during gastrulation in the very early development of the embryo of most animals. The outer...
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    implants in the uterus. Embryogenesis continues with the next stage of gastrulation, when the three germ layers of the embryo form in a process called histogenesis...
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    developmental biology, invagination is a mechanism that takes place during gastrulation. This mechanism or cell movement happens mostly in the vegetal pole....
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  • Germ layer (category Gastrulation)
    hollow ball of cells, a blastula. This early embryonic form undergoes gastrulation, forming a gastrula with either two or three layers (the germ layers)...
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    sac producing a cellular blastoderm. Like other triploblastic metazoa, gastrulation leads to the formation of three germ layers: the endoderm, mesoderm,...
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    Epiboly (category Gastrulation)
    describes one of the five major types of cell movements that occur in the gastrulation stage of embryonic development of some organisms. Epiboly is the spreading...
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    Ectoderm (category Gastrulation)
    first be observed in amphibians and fish during the later stages of gastrulation. At the start of this process, the developing embryo has divided into...
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    wall where it will undergo further developmental processes, including gastrulation. Embedding of the blastocyst into the endometrium requires that it hatches...
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    meaning a blastula without a clear central cavity. Elysia chlorotica gastrulation is by epiboly: the ectoderm spreads to envelope the mesoderm and endoderm...
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  • Maza, Itay; Novershtern, Noa; Hanna, Jacob H. (1 September 2022). "Post-gastrulation synthetic embryos generated ex utero from mouse naive ESCs". Cell. 185...
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  • starts at the end of gastrulation and continues until birth. During organogenesis, the three germ layers formed from gastrulation (the ectoderm, endoderm...
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    Endoderm (category Gastrulation)
    Germ layer Histogenesis Mesoderm Organogenesis Endodermal sinus tumor Gastrulation Cell differentiation Triploblasty List of human cell types derived from...
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  • (middle) and [laevis]x tropicalis cybrid (bottom) embryos cleave and begin gastrulation synchronously, about 50 minutes after diploid laevis x laevis (top) embryos...
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    is also important in folding tissues at specified hingepoints. During gastrulation in both invertebrates and vertebrates, apical constriction of a ring...
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    In protostomes, during gastrulation, the first opening becomes the embryos' mouth while the anus is formed later. Also, the secondary body cavity (shown...
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    division planes are oriented obliquely to the polar major axis. During gastrulation, deuterostome embryos' anus is given first by the blastopore while the...
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    could be a relevant player within germ-layer organization during gastrulation. Gastrulation is a fundamental phase of vertebrate development in which three...
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  • place during the gastrulation stage of embryonic development. It produces an animal's mesenchymal cells at the onset of gastrulation. During the epithelial–mesenchymal...
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    Fetal membranes illustrated at week 3 following gastrulation...
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    and ectoderm are germ layers that develop in a process called gastrulation. Gastrulation occurs early in human development. The gastrointestinal tract...
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    have proposed that personhood begins at such events as fertilization, gastrulation, the acquisition of an EEG pattern, and birth. Other scientists claim...
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    form a hollow sphere (blastula) and then a depression forms at one end (gastrulation) and eventually becomes the digestive cavity. However, in cnidarians...
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