Link to Pubmed [PMID] – 23765941
Dev. Dyn. 2013 Sep;242(9):1043-55
Vertebrate muscles are defined and patterned at the stage of primary myotube formation, but there is no clear description of how these cells form in vivo. Of particular interest is whether primary myotubes are “seeded” by a unique myoblast population that differentiates as mononucleated myocytes, similar to the founder myoblasts of insects.