Sentences with phrase «tadpole embryos»
The research team found that when it increased levels of E-NTPDase2 in tadpole embryos that consisted of only eight cells, they could cause parts of the eye to form not only on the heads of the amphibians, but also in tissues in other parts of their bodies, including their tails.
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A blob of tissue or tadpole like embryo is not a baby, any more than that sprouted carrot seed in the garden is a vegetable.
At this time, the embryo begins to lengthen and take on the appearance of a tadpole thanks, in part, to the development of the all - important neural tube that runs from the top to the bottom of the embryo.
Chivers and his team also taught frog embryos to fear the fire - bellied newt, a potential predator, by exposing frog eggs to the newt's scent combined with that of crushed tadpoles.
When they created MR images of the tadpoles that grew from these embryos, bright spots indicated where the enzyme was active — in half the animal — and the spots correlated closely with standard stains of enzyme activity done by sectioning the tadpole, they report in the March Nature Biotechnology.