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PLATE NUMBER

STAGE

TIME

ORIENTATION

IMAGE

32

Early tail bud stage

Embryo stage 22

24 h p.f.

Posterior

Anterior

Horizontal section

Early tail bud stage (embryo stage 22)

In this section, the segmentation of the somites are visible in most of the paraxial mesoderm. A continuous subepidermal layer forming dermatome is seen lateral to the somites. This compartment remains unsegmented. at this stage, the ear placode has formed in the sensorial layer of the head epidermis adjacent to the rhombencephalon.