3D nuclei representation of the QC cell lineage.
QC precursor cells (yellow) were produced by periclinal cell division at the outer layer of stage II, and then acquired QC identity (green). After QC marker expression, the QC underwent longitudinal radial cell division to create four QC cells.
Tatsuaki Goh, Koichi Toyokura, Darren M. Wells, Kamal Swarup, Mayuko Yamamoto, Tetsuro Mimura, Dolf Weijers, Hidehiro Fukaki, Laurent Laplaze, Malcolm J. Bennett, and Soazig Guyomarc'h
Development
2016. 143:3363-3371; doi: 10.1242/dev.135319