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Cell Lineage and the Formation and Maintenance of Half Somites

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Somites in Developing Embryos

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSA,volume 118))

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It is becoming clear that an important unit of metameric pattern formation in segmented organisms is the half-segment. For example, in Drosophila, the gene engrailed, which is active in the posterior (caudal) half of each epidermal segment, is involved in determining the distinction between this and the anterior (rostral) half. The boundary between the rostral and caudal halves of a segment coincides with a “compartment boundary”, which may arise because the descendants of the founder cells of each neighbouring compartment are unable to mix with each other (Morata & Lawrence, 1975).

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  1. Dept. Human Anatomy, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX, UK

    Claudio D. Stern

  2. Dept. Anatomy, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DY, UK

    Roger J. Keynes

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  1. University College London, London, England

    Ruth Bellairs

  2. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

    Donald A. Ede

  3. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    James W. Lash

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Stern, C.D., Keynes, R.J. (1986). Cell Lineage and the Formation and Maintenance of Half Somites. In: Bellairs, R., Ede, D.A., Lash, J.W. (eds) Somites in Developing Embryos. NATO ASI Series, vol 118. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2013-3_12

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