Neural crest

'The only interesting thing about vertebrates was the neural crest' Peter Thorogood comment (Donoghue et al. 2008: 530).

torito! Y no es para menos. ¿Cómo anacuas (de Ehretia anacua) evolucionó el sistema cresta neural, en el que un conjunto de células del pliegue neural --una estructura temporal en la neurulación-, viajarán y se diferenciarán en diferentes partes del cuerpo, originando hueso (osteocitos), cartílago (condrocitos), dentina (odontoblastos), neuronas, glia y células pigmentadas (iridióforos, xantóforos, eritróforos y melanocitos)?

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