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Morphogenesis of the digestive tract of the pluteus larva of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus: shaping and bending
Authors:ROBERT D BURKE
Institution:Department of Zoology , University of Alberta , Edmonton , Alberta , Canada , T6G 2E9
Abstract:The 3 elements of the digestive tract of the pluteus larva (esophagus, stomach and intestine) acquire their characteristic shapes between 60 and 72 h after fertilization (15°C). The number of cells in the developing gut increases sigmoidally from about 100 at the completion of gastrulation to about 425 in the feeding pluteus. Embryos in which cytokinesis was inhibited with colchicine were able to form typically shaped guts comprising about 150 cells. Autoradiographs of embryos that had been cultured in sea water containing 3H]thymidine during shaping of the gut indicated no regions of enhanced thymidine incorporation. The hypothesis that shaping of the larval gut is due to regions of allometric cell proliferation was rejected. Measurements of the length of the developing gut indicate that the bending of the gut is facilitated by a doubling of the length of the digestive tract between two fixed points, the mouth and the anus.
Keywords:morphogenesis  Strongylocentrotus purpuratus  larval gut  shaping
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