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Evolving Neural Crest Cells
Contributor(s): Eames, Brian Frank (Editor), Medeiros, Daniel Meulemans (Editor), Adameyko, Igor (Editor)
ISBN: 1138630810     ISBN-13: 9781138630819
Publisher: CRC Press
OUR PRICE:   $142.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: July 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Animals - General
- Science | Life Sciences - Cell Biology
- Science | Life Sciences - Evolution
Series: Evolutionary Cell Biology
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.30 lbs) 284 pages
 
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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
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