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XB-ART-27748
Acta Anat (Basel) 1988 Jan 01;1324:331-4.
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Proposed role of microfilaments in the cell reorientation that accompanies somite formation in Xenopus.

Burgess AM .


Abstract
Somite formation involves a reorientation of the cells of the paraxial mesoderm but the underlying mechanism of this movement has never been demonstrated. The present investigation shows bundles of myofibril-like material in the ventrocranial corners of some of the paraxial mesoderm cells of Xenopus prior to reorientation and consequent somite formation.

PubMed ID: 3195316