Fate maps: forward
Move cursor over early blastomeres to see their future positions, click on blastomeres to read about their later fate.
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ventral-------------dorsal animal up, vegetal down |
32-cell / stage 6 | stage 8 | stage 10.5 |
| Fate mapping data and images based upon the work of Moody 1987a, 1987b and Bauer et al. 1994. | |||
Fate maps: reverse
| Move cursor over cell/tissue type and the blastula map will appear. | Mapping
data based upon Moody
1987. and Mills et al. 1999. |
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receives major contribution from red blastomeres  |
receives a small contribution from green blastomeres  |
rarely receives
a contribution
from yellow blastomeres  |
| animal is up and vegetal down in all images, dorsal is to the right and ventral to the left | ||
| ectoderm | mesoderm | ||
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| neurectoderm | endoderm | ||
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