Embryology of Dolphins: Staging And Ageing Of Embryos And Fetuses Of Some Cetaceans - Couverture souple

Sterba, Oldrich; Klima, Milan; Schildger, Bernd

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ISBN 10 : 3540672125 ISBN 13 : 9783540672128

Editeur : Springer, 2013

Synopsis

The rapid development of molecular biology and genetics has led to renewed interest in embryology, comparative embryology, and studies of the relations between ontogeny and phylogeny. In fact, genes have been identified which are involved in the formation of shapes and structures, and it is becoming apparent that their primary morphological expressions are conspicuously similar in different species. The primarily identical shapes do not become diversified until advanced individualization of embryos, and it is here that it is possible to employ the knowledge of comparative embryology, the branch of science engaged in the study of the development and differentiation of tridimensional structures in different animal groups. However, comparative embryology has been neglected during the past decades, as its development has appeared to have been completed. In our opinion, the decreased interest in comparative embryology has been caused by the fact that often the time factor was not or could not be respected. In fact, in the case of embryos of wild animals even their ontogenetic age and sometimes the duration of intrauterine development are unknown.

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Comparative embryology has been neglected in the past decades. In our opinion the decreased interest has been caused by the fact that the time factor has not suffficiently been respected. Therefore we used the Stageing and Ageing Method (Sterba 1995) to determine the ontogenetic age of embryos and to state the time tables and time relations of various ontogenetic events. We examined 167 embryos and fetuses of four dolphin species (collection Dr. Senckenbergische Anatomie, Franfurt am Main). The study of intrauterine development and growth while consistently respecting the time factor enabled us to determine the time course of organogenesis of all organ systems. The resulting comparison with other mammals detected the time lag in ossification, retardation of odontogeny, the time of the origin and development of the fluke, dorsal fin and flipper, etc. We believe the Stageing and Ageing Method serves for a much more efficient evaluation of existing embryological collections which very often contain embryos of unknown age.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3540672125
• ISBN 13: 9783540672128
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 133
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