title: The early neural plate rules over the mesoderm.
abstract: In this issue of Developmental Cell, Richard Harland and colleagues describe evidence that an inductive interaction between the neural plate and the paraxial mesoderm regulates somite development and somite size.
authors.affiliation: Embryology Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, University of Sydney, Wentworthville, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tam
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D009672:Notochord / Q000196:embryology* / Q000502:physiology; D019170:Somites / Q000502:physiology*; D014981:Xenopus / Q000196:embryology*