| Value |
12
cell divisions
|
| Organism |
African clawed frog Xenopus laevis |
| Reference |
Newport J, Kirschner M. A major developmental transition in early Xenopus embryos: I. characterization and timing of cellular changes at the midblastula stage. Cell. 1982 Oct30(3):675-86 abstractPubMed ID6183003
|
| Method |
Abstract: "The Xenopus embryo undergoes 12 rapid synchronous cleavages followed by a period of slower asynchronous divisions more typical of somatic cells." |
| Comments |
Abstract: "[Researchers] have investigated the timing of the MBT [midblastula transition] and found that it does not depend on cell division, on time since fertilization or on a counting mechanism involving the sequential modification of DNA." |
| Entered by |
Paul Jorgensen |
| ID |
101950 |