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| | Transplantation of RNA-Labeled Micromeres into Animal Halves of Sea Urchin Embryos. A Contribution to the Problem of ... |
 | | During contact with the wall, the implanted cells exert such an influence upon the cells in the neighborhood that these differentiate into endoderm, invaginate as archenteron, and eventually form a typical digestive tract. |
 | | The formation of the archenteron, etc., is a striking case of induction (Horstadius, 1935), a process in which differentiation of a group of cells is initiated by other cells which themselves never perform this differentiation. |
 | | At the end of the 16-cell stage, only the micromeres are synthesizing RNA, or they do so to a much greater extent than other blastomeres (Fig.1) (Czihak, 1965a, b). |
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