Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Zebrafish pigment cells develop directly from persistent highly multipotent progenitors

  • Tatiana Subkhankulova,
  • Karen Camargo Sosa,
  • Leonid A. Uroshlev,
  • Masataka Nikaido,
  • Noah Shriever,
  • Artem S. Kasianov,
  • Xueyan Yang,
  • Frederico S. L. M. Rodrigues,
  • Thomas J. Carney,
  • Gemma Bavister,
  • Hartmut Schwetlick,
  • Jonathan H. P. Dawes,
  • Andrea Rocco,
  • Vsevolod J. Makeev,
  • Robert N. Kelsh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36876-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Neural crest cells are highly multipotent stem cells, but it remains unclear how their fate restriction to specific fates occurs. Here, the authors show in zebrafish that broad multipotency is retained even after migration, suggesting that fate restriction occurs directly, but dynamically.