![]() ![]() The hemispheres of the blastula correspond to the names of their respective poles. If the blastula were compared to a globe of the world, the North Pole would correspond to the animal pole of the embryo, and the South Pole to the embryo’s vegetal pole. The raw material for gastrulation is the blastula, a hollow sphere of cells the space inside of the blastula is called the blastocoel. The following is a detailed explanation of gastrulation in Xenopus while gastrulation varies across species, studies in Xenopus have shed considerable light on the process in general. The size and structure of Xenopus laevis (African clawed frogs) embryos have made the species into a model organism for early developmental study. Since the early twentieth century, experimental embryologists like Hans Spemann and Wilhelm Roux have extensively studied gastrulation in amphibian embryos in an attempt to learn more about how establishment of different regions in the body is determined. The gastrula, the product of gastrulation, was named by Ernst Haeckel in the mid-1870s the name comes from Latin, where gastēr means stomach, and indeed the gut (archenteron) is one of the most distinctive features of the gastrula. In diploblastic organisms like cnidaria or ctenophora, only the endoderm and the ectoderm form in triploblastic organisms (most other complex metazoans), triploblastic gastrulation produces all three germ layers. The process of gastrulation can be either diploblastic or triploblastic. The process of gastrulation allows for the formation of the germ layers in metazoan embryos, and is generally achieved through a series of complex and coordinated cellular movements. ![]()
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