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Development, Vol 111, Issue 4 845-856, Copyright © 1991 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Deep cytoplasmic rearrangements during early development in Xenopus laevis

MV Danilchik and JM Denegre
Department of Biology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut 06459.

The egg of the frog Xenopus is cylindrically symmetrical about its animal-vegetal axis before fertilization. Midway through the first cell cycle, the yolky subcortical cytoplasm rotates 30 degrees relative to the cortex and plasma membrane, usually toward the side of the sperm entry point. Dorsal embryonic structures always develop on the side away from which the cytoplasm moves. Details of the deep cytoplasmic movements associated with the cortical rotation were studied in eggs vitally stained during oogenesis with a yolk platelet-specific fluorescent dye. During the first cell cycle, eggs labelled in this way develop a complicated swirl of cytoplasm in the animal hemisphere. This pattern is most prominent on the side away from which the vegetal yolk moves, and thus correlates in position with the prospective dorsal side of the embryo. Although the pattern is initially most evident near the egg's equator or marginal zone, extensive rearrangements associated with cleavage furrowing (cytoplasmic ingression) relocate portions of the swirl to vegetal blastomeres on the prospective dorsal side.


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