Timetable of Drosophila early development

Range Figure - link minutes AED (after egg deposition)
Organism Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
Reference Foe, V.E., Odell, G.M. and Edgar, B.A. (1993) Mitosis and Morphogenesis in the Drosophila Embryo Chapter 3, pp 149-300, in The Development of Drosophila melanogaster, Edited by M. Bate and A. Martinez-Arias, Cold Spring Harbor Press pp.154-155 figure 1
Comments Caption beneath figure: "Time line for the first 300 min of development in Drosophila melanogaster. The drawings on the left depict the progression of mitotic cycles, nuclear and cytoplasmic rearrangements, and blastoderm deformations during gastrulation and germ-band elongation. The right side shows the timing of some key developmental events." See note beneath table
Entered by Uri M
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