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Hill JP. The Early Development of the Marsupialia, with Special Reference to the Native Cat (Dasyurus Viverrinus). (1910) Quart. J. Micro. Sci. 56(1): 1-134.

  Contents: 1 Review of Previous Observations | 2 The Ovum of Dasyurus | 3 Cleavage and Blastocyst | 4 Blastocyst Growth Ectoderm Entoderm | 5 Early Stages of Perameles and Macropus | 6 Summary and Conclusions | 7 Early Mammalia Ontogeny | Explanation of Plates
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Eastern quoll
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This historic 1910 paper by James Peter Hill describes marsupial development in the native cat (Dasyurus Viverrinus)



Note that native cat, eastern native cat, are historic names for the eastern quoll Dasyurus Viverrinus (D. viverrinus). The eastern quoll is a medium-sized carnivorous marsupial native to Australia.

  • Dasyurus - "hairy tail"

dasyurid

Modern Notes:

Australian Animal: echidna | kangaroo | koala | platypus | possum | Category:Echidna | Category:Kangaroo | Category:Koala | Category:Platypus | Category:Possum | Category:Marsupial | Category:Monotreme | Development Timetable | K12
Historic Australian Animal  
Historic Embryology: 1834 Early Kangaroo | 1880 Platypus Cochlea | 1887 Monotremata and Marsupialia | 1910 Eastern Quoll | 1915 The Monotreme Skull | 1939 Early Echidna

The Hill Collection contains much histology of echidna and platypus embryonic development.

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Monito del Monte Development | Opossum Development
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Chapter VI. - General Summary and Conclusions

The observations recoi'ded in the pi'eceding pages and the conclusions deducible therefrom may be summarised as follows ;

(a) Ovum. - The uterine ovum of Dasyurus is characterised (1) by its large size relatively to those of Eutheria; (2) by the presence externally to the zona of a layer of albumen and a shell-membrane, both laid down in the Fallopian tube and homologous with the corresponding structures in the Mouotreme ovum, the shell-membrane, like the shell of the latter, inci'easing in thickness in the uterus; (3) by its marked polarity, its lower two thirds consisting of formative cytoplasm, dense and finely granular in appearance, owing to the presence of fairly uniformly distributed deutoplasmic material, and containing the two pronuclei, its upper third being relatively clear and transparent, consisting as it does of a delicate reticulum of non-formative cytoplasm, the meshes of which are occupied by a clear deutoplasmic fluid. Study of the pi'ocess of vitellogenesis in ovarian ova demonstrates that this fluid represents surplus deutoplasmic material which has not been utilised in the upbuilding of the formative region of the ovum.

The fate of the clear non-formative portion of the ovum is a very remarkable one. Prior to the completion of the first cleavage, it is separated off from the formative remainder of the ovum as a spherical mass or yolk-body, Avhich takes no direct part in development, though it becomes enclosed iu the blastocyst cavity on completion of the blastocyst wall at the upper pole. Its contained deutoplasmic fluid is to be regarded as the product of an abortive attempt at the formation of a solid yolk-mass, such as is found in the Monotreme ovum. By its elimination the potentially yolk-laden telolecithal ovum becomes converted into a secondarily homolecithal, holoblastic one. All the evidence is held to support the conclusion that the Marsupials are descended from oviparous ancestors with ineroblastic ova.

(b) Cleavage. - Cleavage begins in the uterus, is total, and at first equal and of the radial type. The first two cleavage planes are meridional and at right angles to each other. The resulting four equal-sized blastomeres lie disposed radially around the polar diameter like those of the Monotreme (not in pairs at right angles to each other as in Eutheria), and enclose a segmentation cavity open above and below, their upper ends partially surrounding the yolk-body. The third cleavage planes are again meridional, each of the four blastomeres becoming subdivided equally into two. The resulting eight cells form an equatorial ring in contact with the inner surface of the sphere formed by the egg-envelopes. They


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contain deutoplasmic material, which is, however, located mainly in their lower halves. The ensuing fourth cleavages are equatorial, and in correlation with the just-mentioned disposition of the deutoplasm, are unequal and qualitative, each of the eight blastoraeres becoming subdivided into an upper smaller and clearer cell, with relatively little deutoplasm fairly uniformly dispersed through the cytoplasm, and a lower larger, more opaque cell Avith much deutoplasm, mainly located in a broad zone in the outer portion of the cell-body. A 16-celled stage is thus produced in which the blastomeres are characteristically arranged in two superimposed rings, each of eight cells, an upper of smaller, clearer cells next the yolk-body, and a lower of larger, denser cells. The former is destined to give origin to the formative or embryonal region of the blastocyst wall, the latter to the non-formative or extra-embryonal region of the same.

(c) Formation of the Blastocyst. - There is in the Marsupial no morula stage as in Butheria, the blastomeres proceeding directly to form the wall of the blastocyst. The cells of the two rings of the 16-celled stage divide at first meridionally and then also equatorially, the division planes being always vertical to the surface. The daughter-blastomeres so produced, continuing to divide in the same fashion, gradually spread towards opposite poles in contact with the inner surface of the fii-m sphere formed by the zona and the thickened shell-membrane. Eventually they form a complete cellular lining to the said sphere and it is this which constitutes the wall of the blastocyst. The latter is accordingly unilaminar at its first origin, and it remains so in Dasyurus until it has attained, as the result of active gi'owth accompanied by the imbibition of fiuid from the uterus, a diameter of 4-5 mm. It consists of two parts or regions, distinct in origin and in destiny, and clearly marked off from each other in later blastocysts by a definite junctional line approximately equatorial in position, viz. an upper, embryonal or formative region derived from the upper cell-ring of the 16-celled stage, and a lower, extra-embryonal or nonVOL. 56, PART 1. NEW SERIES. 6


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formative region derived from tlie lower cell-ring of the same stage.

(d) Later History of the Two Region s of the Blastocyst Wall (for details see pp. 72-74). - From the embryonal region are derived the embryonal ectoderm and the entire entoderm of the vesicle. I conclude^ therefore, that it is tlie homologue of the inner cell-mass or embryonal knot of the Eutherian blastocyst. The extra-embryonal region directly furnishes the outer extra-embryonal layer of the vesicle wall, i. e. the outer layer of the omphalopleure and chorion of later stages. Assuming, as the facts of comparative anatomy and palaeontology entirely justify us in doing, that the Mammals are monophyletic and of reptilian origin, and further assuming that the foetal membranes are homologous structures throughout the Amniotan series (also in my view a perfectly justifiable assumption)^, then the homologies of this extraembryonal region of the Marsupial blastocyt are not far to seek. It is clearly the homologue of the extra-embryonal ectoderm of the Sauropsidan and Monotreme egg, and the homologue also of the outer enveloping layer of the Eutlierian blastocyst, to which Hubi'echt has given the special name of “ trophoblast.” In my view the trophoblast is none other than extra-embryonal ectoderm which in the viviparous mammals, in correlation with the intra-uterine mode of development, has acquired a special significance for the nutrition of the embryo.

These, then, are my conclusions, and to me they seem on general grounds perfectly obvious, viz. : (1) that the embryonal or formative region of the unilaminar Marsupial blastocyst is the homologue of the inner cell-mass or

  • How Assheton can maintain f 09, p. 266) “ that the amnion of the

rabbit is not more homologous to the amnion of the Sauropsidan than the homy teeth of Ornithorhynchns ai-e homologous to the true teeth of the mammal or reptile, which they have supplanted,” how he can hold this view and yet proceed to utilise the presence of the amnion as one of the leading charactei-s distinguishing the Amniota from the Anamnia, I fail to comprehend. Surely the presence of a series of purely analogous structures in a group is of no classificatory value.


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embryonal knob of tlie Eutberiaii blastocyst ; and (2) that the extra-embryonal or noii-formative region of the same is the homologne of the extra-embryonal ectoderm of the Sauropsida and Monotremata and of the trophoblast of the Eutheria.

As regards conclusion (1) there is not likely to be much difference of opinion, but as regards (2), whilst perhaps the majority of embryologists support the obvious, not to say common-place view which I here advocate, it seems certain that it will prove neither obvious nor acceptable to those mammalian embryologists (I refer specifically to my friends Professor A. A. W. Hubrecht and Mr. R. Asshetou) who, with only Selenka^s account of eaidy Marsupial ontogeny before them, have formulated other and quite divergent views as to the morphological nature of the outer enveloping layer of the Eutherian blastocyst. It is therefore necessary to discuss this question further, though I would fain express my conviction that had the observations recorded in this paper been earlier available, much vain speculation as to the phytogeny of the trophoblast might possibly have been avoided.


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Contents: 1 Review of Previous Observations | 2 The Ovum of Dasyurus | 3 Cleavage and Blastocyst | 4 Blastocyst Growth Ectoderm Entoderm | 5 Early Stages of Perameles and Macropus | 6 Summary and Conclusions | 7 Early Mammalia Ontogeny | Explanation of Plates


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