Cardiac competence of the paraxial head mesoderm fades concomitant with a shift towards the head skeletal muscle programme
Afnan Alzamrooni, Petra Mendes Vieira, Nicoletta Murciano, Matthew Wolton, F. Schubert, Samuel C. Robson, Susanne Dietrich
The paper shows that the paraxial head mesoderm in chicken embryos retains cardiac competence until early head fold stages, after which Bmp signals drive a shift to head skeletal muscle programmes.
Developmental Biology · Jun 8, 2023Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology