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Dozen Eggs, A: Time-Lapse Microscopy of Normal Development (12 Parts)

Synopsis
Shows normal development in a wide range of organisms, using real-time and time-lapse cinemicrography to demonstrate major cellular rearrangements. The diversity of embryonic patterns by shown by the way several different organisms solve common problems.
Language
English
Country
United States
Medium
Video; Videocassette VHS. col. 40 min.
Year of production
1991
Availability
Sale; 2000 sale: £39.95 (+VAT inc. p&p)
Documentation
Accompanying handbook.
Uses
Developmental biology courses.
Subjects
Biology
Keywords
chickens; developmental biology; embryonal development; flatworms; frogs; fruit flies; killfish; mouse; nematodes; sea squirt; sea urchins; slime mould; zebrafish

Credits

Director
Rachel Fink

Sections

Title
Sea urchin development
Synopsis
1 (5 min): 'Lytechinus' urchins: fertilisation, cleavage, mesenchyme ingression and low-power gastrulation of 'L. pictus' and high-power gastrulation and spicule formation of 'L. variegatus' embryos.

Title
Slime mold morphogenesis
Synopsis
2 (6 min): Life cycle of 'Dictyostelium discoideum', a slime mould.

Title
Snail polar lobe formation
Synopsis
3 (3 min): Early events in the development of the marine mud snail 'Narssarius obsoleta'.

Title
Meiotic blebbing in flatworms
Synopsis
4 (1 min): Sequences of meiotic blebbing in the egg of a polyclad turbellarian 'Hoploplana inquilina'. This flatworm is a commensal symbiont living inside the mantle cavity of the channelled whelk 'Busycon canaliculatum'.

Title
Nematode development
Synopsis
5 (4 min): Sequences of nematode development using 'Caenorhabditis elegans'.

Title
Fruit fly embryogenesis
Synopsis
6 (6 min): Sequences of normal development of the fruit fly 'Drosophila melangaster' embryo.

Title
Ascidian embryogenesis
Synopsis
7 (3 min): Sequences of normal development in the sea squirt 'Styela clava'.

Title
Frog gastrulation
Synopsis
8 (2 min): Sequence of frog gastrulation of the African claw-toed frog 'Xenopus laevis'.

Title
Zebrafish development
Synopsis
9 (3 min): Sequences of normal development of the zebrafish 'Brachydanio rerio'.

Title
Killfish deep cell migration
Synopsis
10 (3 min): Sequences of cell migration in fish embryos using the killifish 'Fundulus heteroclitus'.

Title
Chicken organogenesis
Synopsis
11 (2 min): Sequences of normal embryogenesis of White Rock chickens.

Title
Mouse development to blastocyst
Synopsis
12 (2 min): Two different sequences of mouse development in 'Mus musculus'. The first covers the early events from cleavage to blastocoel formation. The second covers through hatching blastocyst.

Production Company

Name

Sinauer Associates

Email
http://www.sinauer.com/contact
Web
http://http://www.sinauer.com External site opens in new window
Phone
(413) 549 4300
Address
23 Plumtree Road
PO Box 407
Sunderland, MA
01375-0407
USA

Sponsor

Name

Society for Developmental Biology

Distributor

Name

Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hants RG21 6XS, tel 01256 302699, fax 01256 364733, www.palgrave.com

Web
http://www.palgrave.com External site opens in new window
Phone
01256 302699
Fax
01256 364733
Address
Macmillan Distribution Ltd
Houndmills
Basingstoke, Hants
RG21 6XS

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