Cleavage and Gastrulation in Zebrafish Embryos
Mathias Köppen, Max‐Planck‐Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Carl‐Philipp Heisenberg, Max‐Planck‐Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Published online: September 2005
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0001072
Abstract
During zebrafish gastrulation, the interplay between patterning events and morphogenesis creates an embryo out of a seemingly
unstructured blastula stage embryo, an embryo with distinct polarities along its anterior–posterior, dorsoventral and left–right
axes at the end of gastrulation.
Keywords: morphogenesis; patterning
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