The animal displays defects in any step of the ventral enclosure process resulting an embryo that is not enclosed and or with interior cells protruding out of the embryo.
Animals exhibit defects in the generation of the dorsal epithelial sheet, which entails distinct cell shape changes and movements to affect the interdigitation of two rows of dorsal cells resulting in a single row of cells across the dorsal midline.
Cessation of development that normally occurs in C. elegans 520-620min after the first cleavage at 20C, the stage between the 2-fold and fully elongated embryo.
Cessation of development at an intermediate stage in embryogenesis, immediately following the completion of gastrulation. In C. elegans this occurs around 350-390 minutes after first cleavage, cell number is at approximately 560 cells. At this time cell proliferation ceases and the embryo begins morphogenesis and elongation. The shape of the entire embryo within the eggshell resembles a lima bean (Wormatlas).
Cessation of development during the gastrulation stage of embryonic development. In C. elegans, gastrulation occurs 100-290 minutes after first cleavage at 20 degrees Centigrade when the embryo develops from 28 cells to 421 cells (during the proliferating embryo life stage).
