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Convergence and extension movements mediate the specification and fate maintenance of zebrafish slow muscle precursors.
Developmental biology - 1 Apr 2007
Yin Chunyue, Solnica-Krezel Lilianna
Abstract excerpt
During vertebrate gastrulation, concurrent inductive events and cell movements fashion the body plan. Convergence and extension (C&E) gastrulation movements narrow the vertebrate embryonic body mediolaterally while elongating it rostrocaudally. Segmented somites are shaped and positioned by C&E alongside the notochord and differentiate into skeleton, fast, and slow muscles during somitogenesis. In zebrafish,...
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