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The early development (blastulation) of sand dollar embryos will be illustrated with a color movie film. Methods used to obtain a quantitative three-dimensional description of the process in single living animals will be reviewed. These include: (1) photomicrography of serial optical sections, (2) digitization of photographic contours and (3) computation of spatial parameters. The results of a preliminary study will be reported and some problems for the future outlined. A paper describing the working has been submitted to the Journal of Microscopy.
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Prothero, J.W. (1974). Morphogenesis in Sand Dollar Embryos. In: van den Driessche, P. (eds) Mathematical Problems in Biology. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45455-4_28
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