Evolving Neural Crest Cells

Brian Frank Eames (Curatore)

Daniel Meulemans Medeiros (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2020

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

• Curatore: Brian Frank Eames, Daniel Meulemans Medeiros
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Evolutionary Cell Biology
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 284 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 625 gr.
• EAN: 9781138630819

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