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[13 Oct 2009 | No Comment]
Studying Gastrulation in Drosophila

Lewis Wolpert once famously stated “”It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation, which is truly the most important time in your life.”
What is Gastrulation?
During early development in majority of animals, the morphology of the embryo is dramatically reorganized by cell migration and this is termed as Gastrulation. During gastrulation, many cells which are near the surface of the embryo move to a new, more interior location.The main purpose of gastrulation is to position the 3 embryonic germ layers, the endoderm, ectoderm and mesoderm. ( See animations …