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Introduction
Early Stages of Development
Quiz part 1
Suites of Developmental
Characters
Quiz part 2
In this tutorial, you will learn:
The basics of early development from
fertilization through gastrulation.
Major differences in early development
between taxonomic groups.
Credits:
Figures and images by N. Wheat unless otherwise noted.
Starfish embryo photos courtesy of K. Wynne.
Sea urchin gastrulation, and frog cleavage & gastrulation videos courtesy of TheDeepSci’s YouTube channel.
Chick gastrulation video courtesy of elishanathan’s YouTube channel.
Blastocyst image from Wikipedia.
Funded by Title V-STEM grant P031S090007.
Introduction
Development describes the
changes in an organism from its
earliest beginnings through
maturity.
Fertilization
Fertilization
is the initial event in
development in sexual reproduction.
Union of male and female gametes.
Recombination of paternal and maternal
genes.
Restoration of the diploid number (two sets
of chromosomes).
Zygote
The diploid cell
resulting from
fertilization is now
called a zygote.
Blastopore
Archenteron
Primitive
streak – a groove on the surface
along the future anterior-posterior axis.
Functionally equivalent to blastopore lip in frog.
Gastrulation - Mammal
Inmammals the blastula is called a
blastocyst.
Inner cell mass will become the embryo while
trophoblast becomes part of the placenta.
Trophoblast
Gastrulation - Mammal
Gastrulationin mammals involves the
inner cell mass and is similar to that of the
chick due to the fact that mammalian
ancestors and early mammals laid eggs.
The large mass of yolk may be gone, but
the developmental pattern remains.
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Suites of Developmental
Characters
Twomajor groups of triploblastic
animals:
Protostomes include flatworms, annelids
and molluscs.
Deuterostomes include echinoderms
and chordates.
Protostomes & Deuterostomes
Protostomes & deuterostomes are
differentiated by:
Spiral vs. radial cleavage
Mosaic vs. regulative cleavage
Blastopore becomes mouth vs. anus
Schizocoelous vs. enterocoelous coelom
formation.
Spiral vs. Radial Cleavage
Spiral cleavage – Radial cleavage – is
occurs in most found in most
protostomes. deuterostomes.
Some ecdysozoans Tunicates and
show radial or mammals have
superficial (insects) specialized cleavage
cleavage. patterns.
Mosaic vs. Regulative
Development
Mosaic Regulative
development – cell development – the
fate is determined fate of a cell depends
by the components on its interactions with
of the cytoplasm neighbors, not what
found in each piece of cytoplasm it
blastomere. has.
An isolated A blastomere isolated
blastomere can’t early in cleavage is
develop. able to from a whole
Protostomes individual (e.g. twins).
Deuterostomes
Fate of the Blastopore
Protostome means Deuterostome
“first mouth”. means “second
Blastopore mouth”.
becomes the The blastopore
mouth. becomes the anus
The second and the mouth
opening will develops as the
become the anus. second opening.
Blastopore
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Radial cleavage
Spiral cleavage
A four-cell stage embryo
A blastula
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