Number of cells undergoing programmed cell death during embryonic development
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Value | 113 unitless |
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Organism | Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans |
Reference | Sulston JE, Schierenberg E, White JG, Thomson JN. The embryonic cell lineage of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. 1: Dev Biol. 1983 Nov100(1):64-119. p. 104 table 1PubMed ID6684600 |
Method | Light and electron microscopy |
Comments | During embryogenesis 671 cells are generated in the hermaphrodite 113 of these (in the male 111) undergo programmed death and the remainder either differentiate terminally or become postembryonic blast cells. |
Entered by | Ben Marks |
ID | 101367 |