...). This is driven by a population of highly migratory and proliferative ENCDCs at the wavefront, but the molecular characteristics of these cells are unknown. ENCDCs from the wavefront and the trailing region were isolated and subjected to RNA-seq. Wavefront-ENCDCs were transcriptionally distinct from trailing...

.../wavefront ( Dubrulle et al., 2001 ). The molecular changes occurring at the front determine the position of future somite boundaries, and include arrest of the segmentation clock and induction of stable expression of genes characterizing future anterior and posterior half-somites ( Holley, 2007 ; Aulehla...