Saturday, July 20, 2013

Not an embryo.

I just finished teaching a marine invertebrate embryology course (hence the long hiatus). So I thought I'd post a picture of something that is not an embryo, but budding embryologists often confuse with an embryo in the middle of first cleavage. In fact, Noctiluca is a Dinoflagellate which (confusingly) doesn't look much like a Dinoflagellate. It's really big, buoyant, and has a single, long, mobile tentacle.

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