Duration of cleavage cycles and asymmetry in the direction of cleavage waves prior to gastrulation inXenopus laevis

The direction of cleavage waves and the

The direction of cleavage waves and the regional variation in the duration of cleavage cycles on the dorsal side of the Xenopus laevis blastula

✍ Boterenbrood, Elze C. ;Narraway, Jennifer M. 📂 Article 📅 1986 🏛 Springer-Verlag 🌐 English ⚖ 549 KB

The animal and the dorsal side of five embryos of Xenopus laevis were studied in detail from the 7th to the 13th cleavage by means of time-lapse cinematography. At each cleavage the regionally ordered sequence of blastomere divisions is visible in the films as a "cleavage wave", propagating about th