… While others have discussed the role of neural crest cells in … how variation in the development
of neural crest cells and … selection whose variation may originate in the neural crest, with …

… evolutionary change in GRNs and the acquisition of novel cellular functions. A handful of
studies have tested the importance of neofunctionalization in the evolution of neural crest cells. …

… to microevolutionary change in animals. These studies set the stage for future investigations
of protein evolution across phylogenetic levels in order to determine how prevalent this …

… crest cells commit and differentiate into a wide range of cell … of color variation that any factors
affecting the NC cells might … such NC-related variation mirrors the variation in MbC that we …

… of these features to neural crest development and that neural crest cells have served as a …
parameters that could be agents of change in neural crest evolution. These include: (i) timing …

… The observed microevolution appears to result from variation in timing of known X-… crest
migration (progenitor dental mesenchyme cells) to the branchial arches. The microevolution …

… cells are derived from the neural crest, which is responsible for the production of a myriad of
cell types … to life inside or outside of caves, and thus inflexible to gross evolutionary change. …

… variation in miRNA expression patterns or structural variation … neural crest cells revealed
that neural crest cells normally … an important role in microevolution of new morphologies [114…

… If we had a primitive primate that had all of these, would we still see separate populations
of crest cells and separate units of the alveolar process, or would we see something that really …

… the nature of phenotypic variation that arises during … Neural crest cells retain their stem cell
characteristics during … morphologies followed by reversible microevolutionary changes in the …