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Origin and evolution of the neural crest: a hypothetical reconstruction of its evolutionary history.
Development, growth & differentiation - 1 Oct 2001
Wada H
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The neural crest has long been regarded as one of the key novelties in vertebrate evolutionary history. Indeed, the vertebrate characteristic of a finely patterned craniofacial structure is intimately related to the neural crest. It has been thought that protochordates lacked neural crest counterparts. However, recent identification and characterization of protochordate genes such as Pax3/7, Dlx and BMP family...
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