Xenopus embryo development (video)

Posted on October 22, 2008 by | 4 Comments
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4 responses to “Xenopus embryo development (video)”

  1. Coturnix's avatar Coturnix | October 22, 2008 at 2:06 pm |

    This series of videos on the development, one each morning this week, were discovered by my BIO101 students.

  2. Mad Hussein LOLscientist, FCD's avatar Mad Hussein LOLscientist, FCD | October 22, 2008 at 2:57 pm |

    Wooooooaaaaaahhhhhhh. Beyond awesome. What’s the time span on this?

  3. Peggy's avatar Peggy | October 22, 2008 at 3:27 pm |

    Very nice!
    The time post-fertilization at “room temperature”:
    2-cell: 90 minutes
    32-cell: 3 hours
    blastula: 4-7 hours
    gastrulation begins: 9 hours (hard to see in the video)
    the final stage shown looks like about 1.5 day-old tailbud.
    See drawings of the stages. And a bunch more movies of Xenopus development.

  4. Linda's avatar Linda | August 25, 2009 at 7:32 pm |

    Awesome Video! Does anyone know the life expectancy of a xenopus? Mine is at least 23 years old.