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Engrailed controls epaxial-hypaxial muscle innervation and the establishment of vertebrate three-dimensional mobility.
Developmental biology - 1 Oct 2017
Ahmed Mohi U, Maurya Ashish K, Cheng Louise, Jorge Erika C, Schubert Frank R, Maire Pascal, Basson M Albert, Ingham Philip W, Dietrich Susanne
Abstract excerpt
Chordates are characterised by contractile muscle on either side of the body that promotes movement by side-to-side undulation. In the lineage leading to modern jawed vertebrates (crown group gnathostomes), this system was refined: body muscle became segregated into distinct dorsal (epaxial) and ventral (hypaxial) components that are separately innervated by the medial and hypaxial motors column, respectively,...
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