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Experimental Demonstration of Tongue Muscle Origin in Chick Embryos

Department of Anatomy and Embryology, University College London

¹ Author's address: Department of Anatomy and Embryology, University College, Gower Street, London W.C. 1, U.K.

Received for publication 20 March 1958.

SUMMARY

Since in all classes of vertebrates the tongue muscles are innervated by nerve XII, a segmental nerve of the occipital region, it is usually argued on this criterion alone that they originate from occipital myotome tissue. Descriptive evidence in support of this generalization is, however, far from adequate. The most complete accounts that exist refer to one amphibian and two reptile species. In the amphibian Necturus, Platt (1897) observed that ventral outgrowths of the 3rd and 4th occipital myotomes became tongue muscles, and Edgeworth (1935) has described the development of tongue muscles in the reptiles Sphenodon and Lacerta, from ventral parts of two occipital and two cervical myotomes, all innervated by nerve XII. In avian and mammalian embryos, however, early muscle rudiments are extremely difficult to recognize with any certainty histologically.

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