Pig Embryo

• Pig embryos show less ventral flexion and torsion compared to chick embryos
• Highly developed anterior part of the forebrain

  Telencephalon
• Connects midbrain to forebrain

  Diencephalon
• Large round bulb in the midbrain, top of the head

  Mesencephalon
• Gives rise to the cerebral cortex

  Telencephalon
• The metencephalon gives rise to the cerebellum, pons, medulla from the myencephalon
• Gives rise to the medulla

  Myencephalon