Evolving Neural Crest Cells

Daniel Meulemans Medeiros is an associate professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  His lab uses a comparative developmental genetic approach, to better understand the evolutionary origins and diversification of the vertebrate head, a topic Dr. Medeiros has been studying for more than 16 years.  Dr. Medeiros has published over 30 original research articles and several literature reviews on vertebrate head skeleton development and evolution, focusing on neural crest-derived skeletal tissues.   Dr. Medeiros’ research program has been continuously funded by multiple major grants from the NSF and NIH.  Current projects in the Medeiros lab exploit new methods for monitoring and perturbing developmental gene expression in organisms occupying key phylogenetic nodes for understanding vertebrate evolution, including the jawless vertebrate lamprey, the vertebrate-like invertebrate chordate, amphioxus, zebrafish, and the African clawed frog.

• ContentsEditors ……………………………………………………………………………………………..viiContributors...........................................................................................................................ixIntroduction: Tribute to the Neural Crest …………………………………………………… 1Marianne BronnerChapter 1 The Neural Crest, A Vertebrate Invention ……………………………………………… 5Mansour Alkobtawi and Anne H. Monsoro-BurqChapter 2 The Evolution of Cellular EMT and Migration ……………………………………..… 67Joshua R. York, Kevin Zehnder, and David W. McCauleyChapter 3 The Evolution of the Neural Border and PeripheralNervous System—Insights from Invertebrate Deuterostome Animals …………………………… 103Jr-Kai Yu and Yi-Hsien SuChapter 4 The Hunt for Neural Crest in Invertebrate Chordates …………………………………... 137Philip B. AbituaChapter 5 Elaboration of Fates in Neural Crest Lineage during Evolution ….…………………… 157Igor AdameykoChapter 6 On the Evolution of Skeletal Cells before and after Neural Crest ……………….…… 185Brian F. Eames, Patsy Gomez-Picos, and David JandzikChapter 7 Neural Crest and Craniofacial Evolution of Early Vertebrates ………………………… 219Shigeru KurataniChapter 8 Neural Crest in Fossil Vertebrates: What, If Anything, Can We Know? …………….. 243Per Erik Ahlberg and Tatjana HaitinaChapter 9 Evolving Neural Crest Cells: Hopes for Present and Future Understanding ………… 265Igor Adameyko and Brian F. EamesIndex …………………………………………………….……………………………………….......………. 275

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