FLY MORPH-O-GENESIS

About FLY MORPH-O-GENESIS
Thom Kaufman, Rudi Turner, Michale Kaufmann, Jeffrey Giacoletti, and Chris Macri "morphed" together a series of Rudi Turner's S.E.M. images of Drosophila embryos to make "movies" of wild type and mutant fly embryogenesis. These sequences show the uninitiated how fly embryogenesis proceeds. Movies of actual fly embryogenesis often lack detail due to the opacity of the embryo. The SEM images show more detail and give the student a better sense of the morphogenetic movements involved in gastrulation and head involution. Admittedly the morphing process does not absolutely reflect all of the precise movements, but it does give the student an idea of the gestalt of embryogenesis.

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Gastrulation, Lateral View, Wild Type
Showing: Pole Cell Migration; Germ Band Extension; Segmentation; Germ Band Shortening
QuickTime (2.6 MB)

Gastrulation, Ventral View, Wild Type
Showing: Mesoderm Invagination
QuickTime (827 K)

Gastrulation, Dorsal View, Wild Type
Showing: Pole Cell Migration; Germ Band Extension; Segmentation; Germ Band Shortening; Dorsal Closure
QuickTime (3.8 MB)

Head Involution, Ventral View, Wild Type
Showing: Migration of Gnathal Segments
QuickTime (3.2 MB)

Gastrulation, Lateral View, fushi tarazu (ftz) Mutant
Showing: Pole Cell Migration; Germ Band Extension; Abnormal Segmentation; Germ Band Shortening
QuickTime (4.7 MB)

Gastrulation, Dorsal View, bicoid (bcd) Mutant
Showing: Pole Cell Migration; Germ Band Extension; Segmentation; Germ Band Shortening; Dorsal Closure
QuickTime (4.8 MB)

Creators of Fly Morph-O-Genesis

QuickTime (879 K)

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