A new heart for a new head in vertebrate cardiopharyngeal evolution

Nature

Volumn 520, Issue 7548, 2015, Pages 466-473

  Diogo, Rui ^a   Kelly, Robert G ^b   Christiaen, Lionel ^c   Levine, Michael ^d   Ziermann, Janine M ^a   Molnar, Julia L ^a   Noden, Drew M ^e   Tzahor, Eldad ^f  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^f WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIM HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; EMBRYO; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

CARDIOPHARYNGEAL FIELD; CELL POPULATION; CHORDATA; CONCEPT FORMATION; EVOLUTION; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; MESODERMAL CELL; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRANCHIAL ARCH; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; HEAD; HEART; MESODERM; MUSCLE;

CHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRANCHIAL REGION; HEAD; HEART; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLES; NEURAL CREST; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84928578477     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14435     Document Type: Review

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