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Xenopus laevis

Stages	Movie		Author	Content	Details
Single Cell to Blastula		(7.5M)	H.Williams and J.Smith	cleavage from one cell to blastula stage embryo	Author's movie page
Single Cell to Gastrula		(10.6M)	H.Williams and J.Smith	synchronous development of Xenopus laevis embryos during early embryogenesis. Gastrulation follows the synchronous cleavage stages, and migrating involuted mesoderm can be seen underlying the prospective ectoderm cells	Author's movie page
Gastrulation		(1M)	M.Danilchik	a morph of confocal optical sections illustrating the internal movements during gastrulation
Gastrulation		332K	R. Keller	a dorsal surface view of gastrulating embryo.	digitized by Jeff Hardin
Gastrulation through Neuralation and Tailbud		high res (13 M)	H.Williams and J.Smith	time lapse dorsal view	Author's movie page
		low res (2.9 M)

Xenopus tropicalis

Stages	Movie		Author	Content	Details
Gastrulation		(1.9MB)	E.Amaya	color vegetal view of blastopore closure
Neuralation and Elongation		(1.8M)	E.Amaya	color dorsal view of neural tube closure and tailbud elongaton

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last modified: July 25, 2006