title: Nematode gastrulation: having a BLASTocoel!
abstract: During gastrulation of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, individual cells ingress into a solid ball of cells. Gastrulation in a basal nematode, in contrast, has now been found to occur by invagination into a blastocoel, revealing an unanticipated embryological affinity between nematodes and all other triploblastic metazoans.
authors: Department of MCD Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106, USA.
authors: Pradeep M
authors: PM
authors: Joshi
authors: Joel H
authors: JH
authors: Rothman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000196:embryology*; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D047108:Embryonic Development / Q000502:physiology*; D005775:Gastrula / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology; D008954:Models, Biological; D010802:Phylogeny; D013045:Species Specificity