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SUBMITTER: Daggett DF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2723113 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Daggett David F DF Domingo Carmen R CR Currie Peter D PD Amacher Sharon L SL
Developmental biology 20070616 2
As the vertebrate myotome is generated, myogenic precursor cells undergo extensive and coordinated movements as they differentiate into properly positioned embryonic muscle fibers. In the zebrafish, the "adaxial" cells adjacent to the notochord are the first muscle precursors to be specified. After initially differentiating into slow-twitch myosin-expressing muscle fibers, these cells have been shown to undergo a remarkable radial migration through the lateral somite, to populate the superficial ...[more]