Rapid induction of a hyperciliated phenotype in zinc-arrested sea urchin embryos by theophylline.

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Zinc ions, present since fertilization, will arrest embryos of the sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla at the hatched blastula stage, but such embryos lack long cilia, the usual characteristic of animalized embryos. Eventually these embryos will express a minimal long cilia phenotype, with a mean population < 1.4 times that of control blastulae, but only after contemporaneous control embryos gastrulate. Theophylline...

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