Myotome adaptability confers developmental robustness to somitic myogenesis in response to fibre number alteration.
Shukolpa D. Roy, Victoria C. Williams, Tapan G. Pipalia, Kuoyu Li, Christina L. Hammond, Stefanie Knappe, Robert Knight, Simon M. Hughes
The paper shows that zebrafish muscle stem cells adjust their numbers and behavior in response to changes in fibre number, maintaining muscle size through homeostatic mechanisms.
Developmental Biology · Sep 5, 2017Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology