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Chenn and Walsh recently created transgenic mice in which β-catenin stabilized by an amino-terminal truncation was expressed in subventricular zone precursor cells in utero under control of the nestin promoter [ 22 ] . Brains from these transgenic embryos contained increased numbers of periventricular neuroepithelial cells because a greater number of the precursors re-entered the cell cycle after mitosis.
Consequently, the realm broke up into the fiefdoms of the feudal Middle Ages, precursors of the country’s classical provinces — Provence, Burgundy, Normandy, Brittany, and so forth.
In addition, other plant miRNAs may proceed through precursors of noncanonical structure, such as multiple stem-loops or stem-loops of poor quality [ 14 ] . The existence of these types of pre-miRNAs in metazoans is unknown at present.
This does not preclude that even less differentiated hair cell precursors may form in the apex or that those precursors have died before birth.
Together with the above BrdU results, these observations indicate that disruption of Delta-Notch signaling causes excess neural precursors to be specified for early-born neuronal fates at the expense of later-born neuronal and glial fates, without interfering with mechanisms that specify early-born neuronal identity along the dorsoventral axis.