Cell–cell contact landscapes in Xenopus gastrula tissues Debanjan Barua, Martina Nagel, and Rudolf Winklbauer
September 22, 2021
|By Neil Macpherson
On the right, the tissues of a Xenopus embryo at gastrulation. A box in the medoderm expands to the left to show electron micrographs of cells becoming more distant from each other. Long glycocalyx sugar chains interpenetrate each other between cells with glycocalyx III connecting cells over long distances.