timeline of frog development

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TAIL BUD STAGE stage 26


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EXTERNAL GILL STAGE


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Changes in Morphology

These include the decrease or complete absence of specific organs or structures which are

essential during development of early frog embryology, but not critical in the mature frog

species. The significant alterations of this nature include the following developmental

structures.

a)The long tail of the tadpole alongside the fin folds is absorbed again during metamorphosisand becomes absent at the final stage of the metamorphosis.

b) The developing gills are resorted, the gill clefts are congested and the branchial cavities

start to become absent. The reabsorbtion of gills also takes place by autolysis.

c)The teeth of the perioral disc additionally the homey lining of the jaws are shed.

d)The lateral line sense organs within the skin of tadpoles vanish throughout metamorphosis.

e)The cloacal tube begins to condensed and reduced.


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f)Various blood vessels, together with parts of the aortic arches, are reduced during mature

development.

(The figure on the left represents the transformation from a tadpole to a developing structure

Timeline of frog development

Development of egg and embryo at temperature 1 degree celsius.

0 hours! fertili"ation of the egg

1 hours! formation of the gray crescent due to pigment migration

3.5 hours! early cleavage

4.5 hours! blastula stage(coeloblastula with eccentric blastocoel

! hours! gastrulation

! hours!early! crescent shaped dorsal lip

34 hours! middle! semicircular blastoporal lip

4 hours! late! circular blastoporal lip

50 hours! neurulation

50 hours! early! medullary plate

! hours!middle! neural folds converging

!" hours! late! neural tube formed and ciliation of embryo

#4 hours! tail bud stage(early organogeny#

$! hours! muscular response to tactile stimulation

11# hours! early heart beat, development of gill buds

140 hours! hatching and gill circulation

1! hours! mouth opens and cornea becomes transparent

1$ hours! tail fin circulation established

1! hours! degeneration of e$ternal gills, formation of operculum, development of

embryonic teeth

40 hours! opercular fold over brachial chamber e$cept for spiracle and internal gills


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55 hours! prolonged larval stage with refinement of organs

"0 hours! development of hindlimbs, internal development of forelimbs in opercular cavity

"5 hours! projection of forelimbs through operculum, left side first

#0 hours! absorption of the tail and reduction in si"e of the gut

#4 hours! metamorphosis complete, emergence from water as miniature, air breathing frog

%tages of frog embryology

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The rate of development of the egg and embryo will depend upon the temperature at which

they are kept. The appro$imate schedule of development at / degree celsius is providedbelow.

Table 1 tages of frog development

%tage

Time since

fertilisation

&hours)

%tage

Characteristic'mbryo characteristic

(mage of frog

stage

1 '.''!1./'fertili"ation of theegg, post

fertili"ation

animal hemisphere, graycrescent and vegetal

hemisphere are present

1./'!.'' splits into two cellsappearance of first cleavage

furrow

/ .''!.10 becomes four cellsappearance of second cleavage

furrow

) .10!.)0 becomes eight cellsappearance of third cleavage

furrow
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0 .)0!/.''becomes si$teen

cells

appearance of fourth cleavage

furrow

/.''!/./'becomes thirty!two

cells

appearance of fifth cleavage

furrow

.0 /./'!).'' blastula stage

Three dorsal folds become

visible as a result of endoderm

invagination. 2ole cells no

longer visible on surface

3 ).''!0.'' 4astrulation stagetwo primary germ layers.

epiblast and endoderm

0.''!3.'' neurulationmedullary plate, neural folds

and neural tube

* 3.''!*.'' germ layer complete lip involution

encircling yolk

1' *.''!11.'' early gastrula two primary germ layers

1'.0 11.''!11.)0 gastrula two germ layers


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11 11.)0!1./' medulla plate

5olk sac protrudes dorsally,

labium moves to midline on

ventral side

11.0 1./'!1/.10continuation of

medulla platestart closing the plate

1 1/.10!1).10 early neurulathickened ectoderm give rise to

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1.0 1).10!1).)0 neural folds e$pansion of cavity

1/ 1).)0!1.10 neural folds continue e$panding cavity

1) 1.10!13./' neural folds continuation of cavity

10 13./'!1.10 tail bud stage early organogeny

1 1.10!1.)0 tail bud stage posterior ventral view


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13 1.)0!1*.)0 tail bud stage anterior view

1* '.)0!1.)0neural fold close

completedorsal view

' 1.)0!./' early tail bud anterior view

1 ./'!).''termination of

neural crestprogress to ne$t stage

).''!).)0prolonged

developmentelongation

/ ).)0!.10elongation of

embryolater view

) .10!3./'

continuation of

elongation of

embryo

dorsal view


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0 3./'!*./'organs

development

embryo elongates and develops

dorsal thickening

*./'!/1.10 elongationdorsally forms neural and brain

cavity

3 /1.10!/./'elongation of

embryolateral view

/./'!/0.''further

developmentlateral view

*!/' /0.''!/3./' tail bud growth

/1 /3./'!)'.''prolonged

developmentdevelopment


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/ )'.''!))./'early muscular

developmentelongation

//!/) ))./'!0'.''muscular

movementapparatus for locomotion

/0!/ 0'.''!0/./'muscular

movementapparatus for locomotion

/3!/ 0/./'!0./' heart beat develops apparatus

/* 0./'!.'' mouth opens cornea transparent


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)' .''!3.'' gill circulation hatching

)1 3.''!'.'' tail, fin circulation circulation

) '.''!.''internal gills,

operculum

opercular fold, teeth

)/ .''!*.''operculum

completeoperculum closed on right


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) *.''!1'.'' metamorphosisemergence from water as

miniature, operculum complete

The Tadpoles Hatch

2006 David Jones (www.mybitoftheplanet.com)

Around three weeks after spawning the tadpoles hatch out from their eggs. They are each about 12mm

long. They still feed from the old jelly mass and any algae which is growing on it.

At this time most of the tadpoles seem to be together. Can you see the feathery-like gills on the sides of

their heads? At the moment these gills are on the outside of the tadpole's body and the tadpole

breathes through these, getting oxygen from the water.

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Tadpoles Develop Internal Gills

2002 David Jones (www.mybitoftheplanet.com)

A week later and the feathery-like gills have now disappeared from view. A skin grew over them and

they are now inside the tadpole's body. The tadpole continues to breathe through these.

In the small picture you can see the skin on the tadpole has almost covered the gills. At this stage the

tadpoles are around 18mm long.

The newt is just one of the creatures that is preying on the tadpoles. It is also walking on them.

Early stage of common frog tadole de!eloment" s#o$%ng &ranc#%ng g%lls

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