Cranial placodes are focal regions of thickened ectoderm in the head of vertebrate embryos
that give rise to a wide variety of cell types, including elements of the paired sense organs …

Cranial placodes are specialized regions of the ectoderm, which give rise to various sensory
ganglia and contribute to the pituitary gland and sensory organs of the vertebrate head …

The NEUROGENINS (NGNs) are neural-specific basic helix–loop–helix (bHLH) transcription
factors. Mouse embryos lacking ngn1 fail to generate the proximal subset of cranial sensory …

The cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate regional specification of the forebrain
are largely unknown. We studied the expression of transcription factors in neural plate …

▪ Abstract Recent embryological studies are beginning to establish that the underlying
organization of the forebrain may be reduced to relatively simple elements that are common …

We report the generation and analysis of mice homozygous for a targeted deletion of the
Dlx5 homeobox gene. Dlx5 mutant mice have multiple defects in craniofacial structures …

We describe the organization of lateral line nerves and ganglia in the embryonic zebrafish,
Danio rerio. Two lateral line nerves are found anterior to the otic vesicle: the anterodorsal …

Knowledge of the development and evolution of the neural crest sheds light on many of the
oldest unanswered questions in developmental biology. What is the role of germ layers in …

We have identified and mapped three members of a new family of vertebrate genes,
designated Eya1, Eya2 and Eya3, which share high sequence similarity with the Drosophila …

Cranial placodes (which include the adenohypophyseal, olfactory, lens, otic, lateral line,
profundal/trigeminal, and epibranchial placodes) give rise to many sense organs and …