| Title | Nematode gastrulation: having a BLASTocoel! |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2005 |
| Authors | Joshi PM, Rothman JH |
| Journal | Curr Biol |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 13 |
| Pagination | R495-8 |
| Date Published | 2005 Jul 12 |
| ISSN | 0960-9822 |
| Keywords | Animals, Caenorhabditis elegans, Cell Movement, Embryonic Development, Gastrula, Models, Biological, Phylogeny, Species Specificity |
| Abstract | During gastrulation of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, individual cells ingress into a solid ball of cells. Gastrulation in a basal nematode, in contrast, has now been found to occur by invagination into a blastocoel, revealing an unanticipated embryological affinity between nematodes and all other triploblastic metazoans. |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.cub.2005.06.030 |
| Alternate Journal | Curr. Biol. |
| PubMed ID | 16005279 |