Evolving Neural Crest Cells

Contents
Editors ……………………………………………………………………………………………..vii
Contributors……………………………………………………………………………………………………………ix
Introduction: Tribute to the Neural Crest …………………………………………………… 1
Marianne Bronner
Chapter 1 The Neural Crest, A Vertebrate Invention ……………………………………………… 5
Mansour Alkobtawi and Anne H. Monsoro-Burq
Chapter 2 The Evolution of Cellular EMT and Migration ……………………………………..… 67
Joshua R. York, Kevin Zehnder, and David W. McCauley
Chapter 3 The Evolution of the Neural Border and Peripheral
Nervous System—Insights from Invertebrate Deuterostome Animals …………………………… 103
Jr-Kai Yu and Yi-Hsien Su
Chapter 4 The Hunt for Neural Crest in Invertebrate Chordates …………………………………… 137
Philip B. Abitua
Chapter 5 Elaboration of Fates in Neural Crest Lineage during Evolution ….…………………… 157
Igor Adameyko
Chapter 6 On the Evolution of Skeletal Cells before and after Neural Crest ……………….…… 185
Brian F. Eames, Patsy Gomez-Picos, and David Jandzik
Chapter 7 Neural Crest and Craniofacial Evolution of Early Vertebrates ………………………… 219
Shigeru Kuratani
Chapter 8 Neural Crest in Fossil Vertebrates: What, If Anything, Can We Know? …………….. 243
Per Erik Ahlberg and Tatjana Haitina
Chapter 9 Evolving Neural Crest Cells: Hopes for Present and Future Understanding ………… 265
Igor Adameyko and Brian F. Eames
Index …………………………………………………….…………………………………………….………. 275