The stages of Xenopus embryonic development

Reproduced, with permission, from:

Normal Table of Xenopus laevis (Daudin)

Edited by P.D. Nieuwkoop and J. Faber

First edition 1956, Second edition 1967
Republished 1994, with a new foreword by John Gerhart and Marc Kirschner
Garland Publishing Inc, New York ISBN 0-8153-1896-0
Copyright 1994 Pieter D. Nieuwkoop and J. Faber
Original Document
The following thumbnails act as links to the full size JPEG images (approx 70k each).
Stage 1 (animal)

Stage 1 (dorsal)

Stage 1 (ventral)

Stage 2- (animal)

Stage 2 (animal)

Stage 2 (ventral)

Stage 3 (animal)

Stage 3 (dorso-lateral)

Stage 4 (animal)

Stage 4 (dorso-lateral)

Stage 5 (animal)

Stage 5 (dorsal)

Stage 6 (animal)

Stage 6.5 (animal)

Stage 6.5 (dorsal)

Stage 6.5 (ventral)

Stage 7 (animal)

Stage 7 (dorsal)

Stage 7 (ventral)

Stage 8 (animal)

Stage 8 (dorsal)

Stage 8 (ventral)

Stage 9 (vegetative)

Stage 10 (vegetative)

Stage 10.5 (vegetative) a

Stage 10.5 (vegetative) b

Stage 11 (vegetative)

Stage 11.5 (vegetative)

Stage 12 (vegetative)

Stage 12.5 (posterio-dorsal)

Stage 13 (posterio-dorsal)

Stage 14 (lateral)

Stage 14 (posterio-dorsal)

Stage 15 (anterior)

Stage 15 (posterio-dorsal)

Stage 16 (anterior)

Stage 16 (posterio-dorsal)

Stage 17 (anterior)

Stage 17 (dorsal)

Stage 18 (anterior)

Stage 19 (anterior)

Stage 19 (dorsal)

Stage 20 (anterior)

Stage 20 (dorsal)

Stage 21 (anterior)

Stage 21 (dorsal)

Stage 22 (dorsal)

Stage 22 (lateral)

Stage 23 (dorsal)

Stage 23 (lateral)

Stage 24 (dorsal)

Stage 24 (lateral - small)

Stage 25 (dorsal)

Stage 25 (lateral)

Stage 26 (dorsal)

Stage 26 (lateral)

Stage 27 (dorsal)

Stage 27 (lateral)

Stage 28 (dorsal)

Stage 28 (lateral)

Stage 29-30 (lateral)

Stage 31 (lateral)

Stage 32 (lateral)

Stage 33-34 (lateral)

Stage 35-36 (lateral)

Stage 37-38 (lateral)

Stage 39 (lateral - small)

Stage 40 (lateral)

Stage 41 (lateral)

Stage 41 (ventral)

Stage 42 (lateral)

Stage 42 (ventral)

Stage 43 (lateral)

Stage 43 (ventral)

Stage 45 (lateral)

Stage 44 (ventral)

Stage 45 (lateral x8)

Stage 45 (ventral)

Stage 46 (lateral)

Stage 46 (ventral)

Limbbuds

These drawings are made available by permission of Garland Publishing, Inc. and Pieter D. Nieuwkoop.
They may be freely distributed in electronic form, as long as credit is given.

This page last modified by Matthew Cockerill on 25th October 1994.
Comments to cockeril@europa.lif.icnet.uk
Table feature add by Bruno Savelli on 20th March 1996.
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