Resources

Online gastrulation resources and animations, Web sites | Sources

Gastrulation Animation Web Sites

Sea urchin

http://www.stanford.edu/group/Urchin/urchin.html steps of “Cell to urchin”

http://www.luc.edu/depts/biology/dev/seaurgas.htm --diagrams/images of gastrulation

http://www.luc.edu/depts/biology/dev/urchgast.htm --unlabeled animation at top; photographs of steps below

http://worms.zoology.wisc.edu/urchins/SUmainmenu.html Tutorial on sea urchin development (see also their tutorial on amphibian development)

Frog

http://courses.biology.utah.edu/gard/development/Html/Images_movies/gastrulation.html This page has a compilation of gastrulation images and animations—it has a nice animation of Xenupus gastrulation as well as some photos/videos

http://www.thelifewire.com/con_index.htm?43 Animation of frog gastrulation—annotated when viewed as step-through

http://www.snv.jussieu.fr/bmedia/xenope1/gastrulation.swf Animation—in French

http://www.luc.edu/depts/biology/dev/gast.htm Animated images

http://anatomy.med.unsw.edu.au/cbl/embryo/OtherEmb/frog2.htm#gast Movie of frog gastrulation

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~bi12/2004/movies.html This site has several movies of gastrulation

http://worms.zoology.wisc.edu/frogs/mainmenu.html Tutorial—click on the Gastrulation image to see the multiple pages on amphibian gastrulation with many movies and animations

Drosophila

http://flybase.bio.indiana.edu/images/lk/Animation/ appears to be time lapse photographic images

Human http://laxmi.nuc.ucla.edu:8888/Teachers/pphelps/Published_Trays/PS27-Fall98-lec1/Pindex.html Embryogenesis—2 slides on gastrulation (

http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi96/proceedings/papers/Pane/jfp_txt.htm Article on effectiveness of using various graphics/animations in teaching gastrulation (nos. 12 and 13—13 is a simple animation)

Sources

Morphogenic Movements

Drawings by Jeff Hardin, Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin
http://worms.zoology.wisc.edu/frogs/gast/gast_morph.html

3D Frog animations

Drawings by Ray Keller, Professor of Biology, University of Virginia