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Fig. 1. Early gastrula, sagittal section. Animal pole (AP), vegetal pole (VP), future dorsal (D) and ventral (V) sides indicated. Prospective mesoderm dotted; arrow indicates direction of movement. Inner surface of blastocoel roof (BCR) covered by FN fibril network, apical layer (AL) of BCR peeled off the inner layer (IL) at the animal pole. BCR directly above dorsal mesoderm is prospective neuroectoderm. Below the blastocoel (BC), the blastocoel floor (BCF) is formed by the vegetal cell mass (VCM; prospective endoderm). BP, blastopore, IBPL, inner blastopore lip.

Image published in: Winklbauer R (1998)

Copyright © 1998. Image reproduced with permission of the Publisher, John Wiley & Sons.

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