Sentences with phrase «crest cells involved»

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He and others have proposed that a group of cells involved in early development called the neural crest are responsible for the suite of traits associated with domestication syndrome.

Also changed were genes involved in the function of neural crest cells.

When Orlando and colleagues examined horse DNA for genes that may have rapidly changed during domestication, they too found genes involved in neural crest cell function.

In unpublished research, Cagan (now at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, England) found that genes involved in helping neural crest cells migrate differed between the tame and wild animals (SN: 6/13/15, p. 11).

As development proceeds, neural crest cells break away, migrating from head to toe to form tissues involved in pigmentation, muscles, teeth, bone, cartilage, and adrenal glands, which produce stress hormones as well as testosterone.