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Wilehm Roux Arch Dev Biol 1981 Sep 01;1905:267-273. doi: 10.1007/BF00848754.
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Distribution and redistribution of pigment granules in the development of sea urchin embryos.

Tanaka Y .


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Pigment granules (PGs) are embeded in the cortex of embryos of the Japanese sea urchins,Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus and Anthocidaris crassispina. PGs in the cortex actively retreated from the vegetal pole area at the 4-cell stage and then a notable PG-distribution gradient formed along the egg axis (the polar redistribution of PGs). The polar redistribution of PGs in the cortex occurred at the same time after fertilization even in solutions of microtubule disrupting reagents such as Colcemid, vinblastine sulfate or griseofulvin. Consequently, the polar redistribution of PGs was not associated with the microtubules. However, the polar redistribution of PGs was interrupted in seawater containing cytochalasin B (CB), dithiothreitol (DTT) or tetracaine, and the distribution pattern of PGs in the cortex was definitely disturbed. Moreover, CB, DTT and tetracaine altered the division pattern of vegetal blastomeres at the 4th cleavage which is normally unequal so that all the blastomeres divided equally. Microtubule disrupting reagents did not have such an effect on the cleavage pattern. Thus the cortical movement along the egg axis reflected by the polar redistribution of PGs seems to correlate with the micromere formation.

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Genes referenced: LOC100887844 LOC115919910 pole

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Belanger, Movements of echinochrome granules during the early development of sea urchin eggs. 1972, Pubmed, Echinobase