Black S, Larkin K, Souza K.
ASGSB Bull. 1993 Oct; 7: 32.
Department of Biology, Reed College, Portland, OR 97202.
Ovulation was induced in four frogs during the September, 1992 flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Eggs were fertilized at microgravity and incubated either on the 1g centrifuge or at microgravity. Gastrulae developed at microgravity had a thicker blastocoel roof and formed the blastopore lip nearer the vegetal pole than the 1g sample. Despite these differences, neurulation and subsequent morphogenesis were essentially normal. Living tadpoles returned from the flight differed in some swimming behaviors, but these differences disappeared after one week. Tadpoles from both groups have now completed metamorphosis.
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Keywords:
- Animals
- Anura
- Centrifugation
- Embryonic Development
- Female
- Gastrula
- Human Development
- Larva
- Morphogenesis
- Ranidae
- Swimming
- Weightlessness
- Weightlessness Simulation
- Xenopus
- Xenopus laevis
- embryology
- growth & development
- NASA Center ARC
- NASA Discipline Developmental Biology
- NASA Discipline Number 00-00
- NASA Discipline Number 40-60
- NASA Experiment Number 178256
- NASA Program Flight
- NASA Program Space Biology
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UI: 102212841
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