

The terms "gastrula" and "gastrulation" were coined by Ernst Haeckel, in his 1872 work "Biology of Calcareous Sponges". Īlthough gastrulation patterns exhibit enormous variation throughout the animal kingdom, they are unified by the five basic types of cell movements that occur during gastrulation: įollowing gastrulation, cells in the body are either organized into sheets of connected cells (as in epithelia), or as a mesh of isolated cells, such as mesenchyme. In vertebrates, mesoderm derivatives include the notochord, the heart, blood and blood vessels, the cartilage of the ribs and vertebrae, and the dermis.

The two layers are also sometimes referred to as the hypoblast and epiblast. In diploblastic organisms, such as Cnidaria and Ctenophora, the gastrula has only ectoderm and endoderm. These three germ layers are the ectoderm (outer layer), mesoderm (middle layer), and endoderm (inner layer). In triploblastic organisms, the gastrula is trilaminar (three-layered). dorsal-ventral, anterior-posterior), and internalized one or more cell types including the prospective gut. Before gastrulation, the embryo is a continuous epithelial sheet of cells by the end of gastrulation, the embryo has begun differentiation to establish distinct cell lineages, set up the basic axes of the body (e.g. In epibolic gastrula, there is no invagination, but the endo-mesodermal cells become internalized through overgrowth by the ectodermal cells the endoderm differentiates into the gut, and mouth and anus develop from ectodermal invaginations, stomodaeum and proctodaeum, respectively.Gastrulation is the stage in the early embryonic development of most animals, during which the blastula (a single-layered hollow sphere of cells), or in mammals the blastocyst is reorganized into a multilayered structure known as the gastrula.

In invagination gastrula, the gastrula develops from a blastula through invagination of the endoderm forming the archenteron with the blastopore.Deuterostomy is a condition in which the blastopore was retained as the bilaterian anus, the mouth developing as a secondary opening.Protostomy is a condition in which the blastopore was retained as the bilaterian mouth, the anus developing as a secondary opening.Amphistomy is a condition in which the tubular gut evolved from the sack-shaped gut through lateral blastopore closure, leaving mouth and anus.The tubular gut of the bilateral animals evolved from the sack-shaped gut of the common ancestor.The latest common ancestor of the eumetazoans (ctenophores and placozoans are not discussed here) was a gastrula-like organism, with a sac-shaped gut with a blastopore.It is concluded that the tubular gut with mouth and anus most probably evolved through amphistomy. fate of the actual blastoporal opening fate of the tissues surrounding the blastoporal opening, studied both through cell-lineage and gene expression morphology and embryology of the central nervous systems and morphology of larval ciliary bands according to the trochaea theory. A recent review has discussed the most informative characters related to the blastopore fates, viz. Three theories for the evolution of the tubular gut prevail: (1) Protostomy in which the blastopore should become the mouth and the anus develop secondarily, (2) Deuterostomy in which the blastopore should become the anus and the mouth develop secondarily and (3) Amphistomy in which the blastopore should become divided into mouth and anus through fusion of the lateral blastopore lips. Cell-lineage studies show that gastrulation through epiboly and invagination follow similar patterns with the cells of the blastopore rim bordering the cells which give rise to endo-mesoderm. The bilaterian tubular gut with mouth and anus is generally believed to have evolved from the sack-shaped gut of a gastrula-like organism.
