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Ok. The 'end' of the egg that you are looking at is called the Vegetal pole. I am pretty sure that you've captured a process after 'gastrulation' (which is where the digestive tract forms as a furrow or valley in the developing embryo), and so you're well into a process involving the formation of the mesoderm - which is where all the organs hang-out between the gut and the skin (think of it this way... your body has two 'outsides' - the skin, and the inside of your gut. The skin is called the endoderm, the gut layer is called the ectoderm, and everything in the middle is called mesoderm *over simplification*).
I really would be keen to have a peer at some of these developing. We onky look at preimplantation embryos here in my lab - so from one cell to about 100 cells.
Still, those are great photos, Ryan!
*Edit*
After looking at the texts we have here, it could be the blastocoel forming that you can see...
I really would be keen to have a peer at some of these developing. We onky look at preimplantation embryos here in my lab - so from one cell to about 100 cells.
Still, those are great photos, Ryan!
*Edit*
After looking at the texts we have here, it could be the blastocoel forming that you can see...
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