| The term somite is also used more generally to refer to a body segment, or metamere, of a segmented animal. |
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| The carapace is a widespread crustacean feature, arising during development as a fold from the last somite at the back of the head. |
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| The shell around each somite can be divided into a dorsal tergum, ventral sternum and a lateral pleuron. |
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| The coelomic cavity, present initially, becomes obliterated by the side-to-side flattening of the somites, so that the thinner, outer parietal layer of the somite comes in close contact with its thicker visceral layer. |
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| The lower, medioventral part of the somite, called the sclerotome, breaks up into mesenchyme, which contributes to the axial skeleton of the embryo that is, the vertebral column, ribs, and much of the skull. |
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| The visceral layer of the somite very early subdivides into two parts. |
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| The sequence of the zoeal description is based on the malacostracan somite plan and described from anterior to posterior. |
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| The parietal layer of the somite, at a later stage, is converted into mesenchyme that, together with components of the neural crest, gives rise to the dermis of the skin and, for this reason, is called the dermatome. |
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| In amphibians a vertebra is formed from the sclerotomic tissues of two somites, the tissue from the posterior part of one somite joining that from the anterior part of the somite behind it. |
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| A role for DNA methylation in gastrulation and somite patterning. |
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| A combination of non-teratologic doses of the two drugs often increased the incidence of embryos with defective neural tube closure and somite formation. |
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| Caudal rami short and wide, as long as the last abdominal somite. |
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| Exposure of mouse, rat, or chicken embryos to Hcy-thiolactone causes increased lethality, growth retardation, blisters, and abnormalities of somite development. |
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