Peridermal cell patterning in the feather-forming skin of the chick embryo |
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Authors: | Philippe Sengel Annick Mauger |
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Affiliation: | Laboratoire de Zoologie et Biologie Animale, Université Scientifique et Médicale de Grenoble, B.P. 53, 38041 Grenoble, France |
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Abstract: | The shape, distribution, and orientation of peridermal cells were examined in the dorsolumbar skin of chick embryos. Most feather rudiments of middorsal and lateral rows showed a marked cephalocaudal polarity. A similar polarity was found in the prospective rudiments of skin areas lateral to the last-formed row. On the cranial slope and apex of rudiments, cells are convex and predominantly elongated at right angles with respect to the cephalocaudal axis, whereas on the caudal slope, most cells are flat, polygonal, surrounded by a border-line ridge, and oriented predominantly with their long axis parallel to the cephalocaudal axis. The significance of this pattern is discussed in view of the fact that the epidermis is the determinant tissue in feather orientation. |
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