title: Different Species Choose Their Own Paths to Pluripotency.
abstract: Pluripotency is well defined functionally but ambiguously defined at the molecular level. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Boroviak and colleagues (2015) use a multi-species approach to differentiate between fundamental features of pluripotency in mammals and those that exhibit evolutionary plasticity.
authors.affiliation: School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010 VIC, Australia. Electronic address: srfr@unimelb.edu.au.
authors.forename: Stephen R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Frankenberg
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001755:Blastocyst / Q000166:cytology*; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000235:genetics*; D019070:Cell Lineage / Q000235:genetics*; D047108:Embryonic Development / Q000235:genetics*; D005855:Germ Layers / Q000166:cytology*; D039904:Pluripotent Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*