The somites (outdated term: primitive segments) are a set of bilaterally paired blocks of paraxial mesoderm that form in the embryonic stage of somitogenesis...

for somite differentiation Notochord protein accumulates in presomitic mesoderm destined to form the next somite and then decreases as that somite is established...

Somitogenesis is the process by which somites form. Somites are bilaterally paired blocks of paraxial mesoderm that form along the anterior-posterior...

is established during embryogenesis when somites are rhythmically added to the posterior of the embryo. Somite formation begins around the third week when...

ectoderm and somite-forming morphogenic factors cause some primary mesenchyme to form neural mesenchyme, or paraxial mesoderm, and contribute to somite formation...

the ocular somite (referred as "acron" in previous literatures), which carries the eyes and labrum, with six post-ocular segments (somite 1 to 6), which...

somite 1-2...: ∎ Somites of head tagma (head / cephalon / prosoma) ...7-10: ∎ Abdominal somites (further somites ommited) P: ∎ Protocerebral somite /...

myoseptum). In vertebrate embryonic development, a myotome is the part of a somite that develops into muscle. The anatomical term myotome which describes the...

to the brain. The term is also used to refer to a part of an embryonic somite. Along the thorax and abdomen, the dermatomes are like a stack of discs...

teeth and adrenal medulla) or from the sclerotome, which derives from the somite block of the mesoderm. As with the neurocranium, in Chondricthyes and other...