Musculoskeletal development articles within Nature

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    A system involving in vitro induction of presomitic mesoderm recapitulates oscillatory expression of core segmentation clock genes and travelling-wave-like gene expression, suggesting that this system can be used to study the human segmentation clock and provide insights into diseases associated with human axial skeletogenesis.

    • Mitsuhiro Matsuda
    • , Yoshihiro Yamanaka
    •  & Cantas Alev

  • Letter |

    This phylogenomic study shows that core muscle proteins were already present in unicellular organisms before the origin of multicellular animals, and supports a convergent evolutionary model for striated muscles in which new proteins are added to ancient contractile apparatus during independent evolution of bilaterians and some non-bilaterians, resulting in very similar ultrastructures.

    • Patrick R. H. Steinmetz
    • , Johanna E. M. Kraus
    •  & Ulrich Technau

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