This volume will use a comparative approach to survey the development of the neural crest in vertebrates, and neural crest-like cells, across the metazoa. This information will be used to reveal neural crest evolution and identify the genomic, genetic, and gene-regulatory changes that drove them.

Contents

Editors ...........................................................................................................vii

Contributors...........................................................................................................................ix

Introduction: Tribute to the Neural Crest ............................................................ 1

Marianne Bronner

Chapter 1 The Neural Crest, A Vertebrate Invention ...................................................... 5

Mansour Alkobtawi and Anne H. Monsoro-Burq

Chapter 2 The Evolution of Cellular EMT and Migration ............................................... 67

Joshua R. York, Kevin Zehnder, and David W. McCauley

Chapter 3 The Evolution of the Neural Border and Peripheral

Nervous System-Insights from Invertebrate Deuterostome Animals ................................. 103

Jr-Kai Yu and Yi-Hsien Su

Chapter 4 The Hunt for Neural Crest in Invertebrate Chordates .......................................... 137

Philip B. Abitua

Chapter 5 Elaboration of Fates in Neural Crest Lineage during Evolution ............................ 157

Igor Adameyko

Chapter 6 On the Evolution of Skeletal Cells before and after Neural Crest ......................... 185

Brian F. Eames, Patsy Gomez-Picos, and David Jandzik

Chapter 7 Neural Crest and Craniofacial Evolution of Early Vertebrates .............................. 219

Shigeru Kuratani

Chapter 8 Neural Crest in Fossil Vertebrates: What, If Anything, Can We Know? ................. 243

Per Erik Ahlberg and Tatjana Haitina

Chapter 9 Evolving Neural Crest Cells: Hopes for Present and Future Understanding ............ 265

Igor Adameyko and Brian F. Eames

Index ........................................................................................................................... 275