Las células migratorias parecidas a una cresta neural forman la pigmentación corporal en un embrión urocordado

William R Jeffery1, Allen G Strickler, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto

  • 1Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA. jeffery@umd.edu

Nature
|October 8, 2004
PubMed
Resumen

Se encontraron células migratorias que se asemejan a las células de la cresta neural de los vertebrados en el urocordato Ecteinascidia turbinata, desafiando la noción de que las células de la cresta neural son exclusivas de los vertebrados. Estos hallazgos sugieren un origen anterior para las células parecidas a la cresta neural en la evolución de los cordados.

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