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Cellular morphology, contact, and arrangement in the late blastula and in various stages of gastrulation ofXenopus were examined by SEM of specimens dissected after fixation or fractured in amyl acetate. The prospective ectoderm of the blastocoel roof consists of several layers of interdigitating cells connected by numerous small protrusions which may function in the decrease in number of cell layers observed during ectodermal epiboly. During gastrulation, prospective mesoderm is regionally differentiated by cellular morphology and arrangement into preinvolution mesoderm, the mesodermal involution zone, and involuted mesoderm. The involuted anterodorsal (head), lateral, and ventralmesoderm consists of a stream of loosely-packed, irregularly shaped cells having large extensions of the cell body attached locally to other cells by small protrusions. Involuted posterodorsal mesoderm (chordamesoderm) consists of elongated cells arranged in palisade fashion and connected by similar protrusions. Involuted mesodermal cells in all regions are attached to the overlying prospective ectodermal cells by numerous small protrusions along the entire interface between the two cell layers. Suprablastoporal endodermal cells involute as an epithelial sheet, changing in shape in the process, to form the roof of the archenteron. Bottle cell morphology, arrangement, and position with respect to the mesodermal cell stream is described. Evidence presented here and elsewhere suggests that involution of mesoderm and of the archenteron roof inXenopus is dependent primarily upon the relative movement of the mesodermal cell stream and of the overlying ectoderm.
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