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LIVING eggs of the zebra fish, Brachydanio rerio (Hamilton, formerly Buchanan), have been studied to detect variations in the rates of cleavage between eggs in the same batch and between different batches. In this tropical fresh-water fish a symmetric pattern of cleavage favours the prompt recognition of impending cytoplasmic furrows up to the 32-cell stage1, beyond which the stratification of blastomeres and their diminution in size make sufficiently precise observations impossible. Cell division is synchronous in all blastomeres from the 2-to the 32-cell stage.
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MARRABLE, A. Variations in Early Cleavage of the Zebra Fish. Nature 184, 1160–1161 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841160a0
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