{"id":1479,"date":"2019-07-24T14:13:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/?page_id=1479"},"modified":"2019-08-06T11:15:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T16:15:55","slug":"embryogenesis-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/home\/2019-projects\/c-elegans-brain\/embryogenesis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Embryogenesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1761\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1761 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2019\/07\/celegans-embryogenesis-1024x843.jpg\" alt=\"C. elegans embryogenesis. Pharynx (green), gonad (purple), embryos (blue). Adapted from: WormAtlas. \" width=\"750\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2019\/07\/celegans-embryogenesis-1024x843.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2019\/07\/celegans-embryogenesis-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2019\/07\/celegans-embryogenesis-768x632.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>C. elegans<\/em> embryogenesis. Pharynx (green), gonad (purple), embryos (blue). Adapted from: <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/home\/2019-projects\/c-elegans-brain\/citations\/\">Altun and Hall, 2009<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The <strong>gestation period<\/strong> for\u00a0<em>C<\/em><em>. <\/em><em>elegans\u00a0<\/em>is <strong>11.5 hours<\/strong> (2.5 hrs\u00a0<em>in\u00a0<\/em><em>utero\u00a0<\/em>development and 9 hrs in\u00a0<em>ex\u00a0<\/em><em>utero\u00a0<\/em>development), which is the period from fertilization to hatching in\u00a0<em>C<\/em><em>. <\/em><em>elegans<\/em>. Development continues post-hatching, where in the first through fourth larval stages (L1-L4) the nervous and reproductive systems and digestive tract begin and complete development. L1-L4 development takes 38hrs, after which the worm is considered a young adult (Cho et al., 2012). <em>C<\/em><em>. <\/em><em>elegans\u00a0<\/em>development is also temperature dependent: \u201c<em>C<\/em><em>. <\/em><em>elegans\u00a0<\/em>grows 2.1 times faster at 25\u00b0C than at 16\u00b0C\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/home\/2019-projects\/c-elegans-brain\/citations\/\">Eisenmann, 2005<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/home\/2019-projects\/c-elegans-brain\/citations\/\">Maniatis et al., 1982<\/a>). This is different than in human development, where the fetus develops <em>in utero\u00a0<\/em>for the duration of the 40 week gestation period. Human and <em>C. elegans\u00a0<\/em>development also differs in that most systems in the human body have begun to develop within the first trimester (first 12 weeks) of gestation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gestation period for\u00a0C. elegans\u00a0is 11.5 hours (2.5 hrs\u00a0in\u00a0utero\u00a0development and 9 hrs in\u00a0ex\u00a0utero\u00a0development), which is the period from fertilization to hatching in\u00a0C. elegans. Development continues post-hatching, where in the first through fourth larval stages (L1-L4) the nervous and reproductive systems and digestive tract begin and complete development. L1-L4 development takes 38hrs, after which the worm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8389,"featured_media":0,"parent":1386,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1479\/revisions\/2378"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}