Talk:Ectoderm

message: Oppose merge.  There would not be room to go into detail on this particular germ layer in the general germ layer article if they were merged.--Gmosaki 13:55, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger

message: Tyler7810 and I (forabettalorretta) are collaborating to improve this article, and of course we extremely welcome to insight/criticism/suggestions/edits/ or any other comments from fellow Wikipedia contributors. We orginally set out to create sub sections for Early Development, History of Research, Ectoderm Differention, Current Research, and Related Diseases. We think that we may omit the Current Research section, for two reasons: one being that originally we had a third collaborator to help with the workload as part of a class assignment but unfortunately she dropped the class, and secondly we think it could be considered the least "encyclopedic" of the sections we currently have planned. 
For the "Early Development" section of the article, we plan to give a detailed analysis at the cellular level of how the ectoderm materializes from fertilization. Here we will introduce the concept of the germ layers and how the ectoderm in particular, forms relative to the other two germ layers. This will be followed by the next section, which describes the ectoderm's next course of action, titled "Ectoderm Differentiation". For this part, we will focus on how the biological events of the ectoderm during the later stages of development, including the fates of the cells of the ectoderm up to the mature stage and touch a little bit on the fates of the cells for the other two germ layers. The next section will be titled "History of Research". At the very least, we would like to discuss the first discoveries of the formation of the ectoderm. Depending on the literature available, it would also be nice to give some other important findings about or relating to our topic. We are still unsure weather this section will come after "Ectoderm Differentiation" or before "Early Development". Finally, our last section will focus on the ectodermal diseases. As of right now, the major disease that has a lot of literature is ectodermal dysplasia. Since there are many different subtypes of this disease, a lot of this section will most likely deal with the more prevalent of the subtypes. If possible, we would like to include other early diseases of the germ layer. 
Thus, at the moment we hope to make the Ectoderm article a stronger article first by elaborating on some of the historical experiments carried out which elucidated some key facts about the ectoderm Then we will detail more of the specific interactions that it is involved in during early embyronic development and what happens to ectodermal cells as they differentiate into more specific cell lineages. Lastly, we want to include some summary information on disease related to ectodermal abnormalities. As the research and improvement of the page continues, sections may be changed or be modified, which we will note on this talk page. --forabettalorretta forabettalorretta 02:44, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Assignment

message: Do you have a plan for that picture? Needs a better legend, and could be bigger.  Maybe a better picture if the goal is to show 3 layers in an early embryo?  Hakeleh (talk) 22:42, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: whats the oocyte picture in here for?

message: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cranial_Neural_Crest_Cells_-_migration.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EctodermalSpecification.png
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EctodermalSpecification2.png
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neural_Crest.png  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hegarty.michael.c (talk • contribs) 16:40, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Links To Possible Images To Be Used

message: I made some quick edits to spelling a grammar mistakes that I was able to pick up on. The introduction and history sections were perfect. There is a ton of information on this page and seems to be well organized to me. The order and the headings all seem well placed. There was a good flow to this article. It is really difficult to follow the movements of the cells and the changes that the embryo undergoes based on how it is described. It is obviously difficult to explain all the different moving parts in words. Maybe you guys could find a picture that illustrates what is happening better, especially for the parts about gastrulation and neurulation. All your citations seem ok to me and there are definitely enough wikilinks.
Hope this was helpful
Aadharm (talk) 01:08, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer Review for [[Education Program:Boston College/Developmental Biology (Spring 2013)]]