blastula
noun
the early developmental stage of an animal, following the morula stage and consisting of a single, spherical layer of cells enclosing a hollow, central cavity.
blastulae
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pluralof blastula.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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For Ptychodera, extensive EST data from egg, blastulae, gastrulae, larvae, juveniles, adult proboscis, stomochord, and gills defining 34,159 cDNA clones53, and 879,000 Roche/454 RNAseq reads from a mixed library of developmental stages54 were used.
From Nature ● Nov. 17, 2015
