The early neural plate rules over the mesoderm.
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.
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Embryology Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, University of Sydney, Wentworthville, NSW, Australia.
D000818:Animals; D009672:Notochord / Q000196:embryology* / Q000502:physiology; D019170:Somites / Q000502:physiology*; D014981:Xenopus / Q000196:embryology*