Developing Embryos

Shown here is a close up photograph of midshipman embryos at various stages of development. As in the low power photograph, the youngest embryos are unpigmented, the oldest ones are darkly pigmented, and those intermediate in coloration are also intermediate in age.

Copyright © 1998 Margaret Marchaterre.
For permission to publish, please contact the photographer at 607-254-4373; Email mm43@cornell.edu.