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Grafting of Somites

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Molecular Embryology

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Abstract

The somites are an intriguing invention of vertebrate embryos. They represent the most overtly segmented structures of the body plan, but they give rise to both obviously segmental (e.g., the axial skeleton) as well as not-so-obviously metameric (dermis and skeletal muscle) elements. In addition, they play a key role in controlling several aspects of the organization of the central and peripheral nervous system of the trunk, and appear to participate in several different types of inductive interactions both within themselves and with neighboring tissues like the neural tube, the notochord, the metanephric and lateral plate mesoderm and the ectoderm and endoderm (see refs. 1 and 2 for reviews).

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  1. Department of Genetics and Development, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY

    Claudio D. Stern

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  1. Dental and Medical Schools of Guy’s, King’s, and St. Thomas’s Hospitals, King’s College, London, UK

    Paul T. Sharpe  & Ivor Mason  & 

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Stern, C.D. (1999). Grafting of Somites. In: Sharpe, P.T., Mason, I. (eds) Molecular Embryology. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 97. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-270-8:255

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-270-8:255

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