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ArticleeLife2017

Single-cell transcriptome analysis of avian neural crest migration reveals signatures of invasion and molecular transitions.

Jason A Morrison, Rebecca McLennan, Lauren A Wolfe, Madelaine M Gogol, Samuel Meier, Mary C McKinney, Jessica M Teddy, Laura Holmes, Craig L Semerad, Andrew C Box and 4 more

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Article in eLife, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed, 81 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Identification of neural crest and melanoma cancer cell invasion and migration genes using high-throughput screening and deep attention networks.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2026
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  15. Craniofacial developmental biology in the single-cell era.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jason A Morrison *Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1654-8076
Rebecca McLennan *Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, United States.
Lauren A WolfeStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, United States.
Madelaine M GogolStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8738-0995
Samuel MeierStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, United States.
Mary C McKinneyStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, United States.
Jessica M TeddyStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, United States.
Laura HolmesStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, United States.
Craig L SemeradUniversity of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, United States.
Andrew C BoxStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, United States.
Hua LiStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, United States.
Kathryn E HallStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, United States.
Anoja G PereraStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, United States.
Paul M KulesaStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6354-9904
Stowers Institute for Medical Research · USUniversity of Nebraska Medical Center · US

Funding

In Vivo Analysis of TrkB Signaling During Sympathetic Nervous System Development and Neuroblastoma PathogenesisR21NS092001 · NINDS · STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH · PI KULESA, PAUL · 2015 to 2016
$454k
Examining Signals That Sculpt Cranial Neural Crest MigrationR03HD089190 · NICHD · STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH · PI KULESA, PAUL · 2017 to 2018
$165k
NICHD NIH HHS R03 HD089190NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS092001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neural crest cells migrate throughout the embryo, but how cells move in a directed and collective manner has remained unclear. Here, we perform the first single-cell transcriptome analysis of cranial neural crest cell migration at three progressive stages in chick and identify and establish hierarchical relationships between cell position and time-specific transcriptional signatures. We determine a novel transcriptional signature of the most invasive neural crest Trailblazer cells that is consistent during migration and enriched for approximately 900 genes. Knockdown of several Trailblazer genes shows significant but modest changes to total distance migrated. However, in vivo expression analysis by RNAscope and immunohistochemistry reveals some salt and pepper patterns that include strong individual Trailblazer gene expression in cells within other subregions of the migratory stream. These data provide new insights into the molecular diversity and dynamics within a neural crest cell migratory stream that underlie complex directed and collective cell behaviors.

Indexed as

Cell MovementGene Expression ProfilingSingle-Cell AnalysisAnimalsChick EmbryoNeural CrestSpatio-Temporal Analysiscell biologychickendevelopmental biologymigrationneural crestRNAseqSingle cellstem cellstrailblazers

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PMID29199959
PMCPMC5728719
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