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Xenopus laevis stage series: stages 1 through 10.

Stages are split between three pages to cut download times (links to each are available in the navigation table above) or you can view the entire series at once if you wish. Digitized imagesand developmental data from Nieuwkoop and Faber (1994) Normal Table of Xenopus laevis (Daudin). Garland Publishing Inc, New York ISBN 0-8153-1896-0.

Click on the small images to download larger versions (most <0.1 MB each, 300 dpi jpg files, tiff files are on another page)

Copyright © 1994 Pieter D. Nieuwkoop and J. Faber. Digital images created by Matt Cockerill and Peter Vize.

Stage 1 (egg), animal view

Stage 1 (egg), dorsal view

 Stage 1 (egg), ventral view

Stage 2 (2-cell)

1 hr 30 min post-fert (pf) @ 23°C

Stage 2 (2-cell) ventral view

1 hr 30 min pf @ 23°C

Stage 3 (4-cell) animal view

2 hr pf @ 23°C

Stage 3 (4-cell) animal view

2 hr ' pf @ 23°C

Stage 4 (8cell) animal view

2 hr 15 min pf @ 23°C

Stage 4 (8 cell) dorso-lateral view

2 hr 15 min pf @ 23°C

Stage 5 (16 cell) animal view

2 hr 45 min pf @ 23°C

Stage 5 (16 cell) dorsal view

2 hr 45 min pf @ 23°C

Stage 6(32 cell) animal view

3 hr @ 23°C

Stage 6.5 blastula, animal view

3 hr 30 min pf @ 23°C

Stage 6.5 blastula, dorsal view

3 hr 30 min pf @ 23°C

Stage 6.5 blastula, ventral view

3 hr 30 min pf @ 23°C

Stage 7 blastula, animal view

4 hr pf @ 23°C

Stage 7 blastula, dorsal view

4 hr pf @ 23°C

Stage 7 blastula, ventral view

4 hr pf @ 23°C

Stage 8 blastula, animal view

5 hr pf @ 23°C

Stage 8 blastula, dorsal view

5 hr pf @ 23°C
 

Stage 8 blastula, ventral view

5 hr pf @ 23°C

Stage 9 blastula, vegetal view

7 hr pf @ 23°C

Stage 10 early gastrula, veg view

9 hr pf @ 23°C

  
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