Evolving Neural Crest Cells
Synopsis
Vertebrates possess lineage-specific characteristics. These include paired anterior sense organs and a robust, modular head skeleton built of cellular cartilage and bone. All of these structures are derived, at least partly, from an embryonic tissue unique vertebrates - the neural crest. The evolutionary history of the neural crest, and neural crest cells, has been difficult to reconstruct. This volume will use a comparative approach to survey the development of the neural crest in vertebrates, and neural crest-like cells, across the metazoa. This information will be used to reveal neural crest evolution and identify the genomic, genetic, and gene-regulatory changes that drove them.Key selling features:
Summarizes the data regarding neural crest cells and nerural crest derivatives
Uses a broad-based comparative approach
Suggests hypothesis that the origin of neural crest cells involved the novel co-activation of ancient metazoan gene programs in neural border cells
Illustrates how the emergences of neural crest made possible the diversification of vertebrate heads
Book details
- Series:
- Evolutionary Cell Biology
- Author:
- Brian F. Eames, Daniel Meulemans Medeiros, and Igor Adameyko
- ISBN:
- 9781351805919
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781315209197, 9781138630819, 9780367522742
- Publisher:
- CRC Press
- Pages:
- 284
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- Yes
- Date of addition:
- 2021-04-10
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Copyright by:
- Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Animals, Nonfiction, Science