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When in chick embryos (H.-H. stages 22 to 25) a variously large area of ectoderm with the subjacent mesodermal layer external to the superficial vessel network, loosened from the dorsal face of the wing bud is rotated 180° in situ, or a similar ecto- and mesodermal sheet isolated from the dorsal face of the leg bud is grafted, in normal of 180° reversed orientation, onto the dorsal face of the wing bud, no changes in the normal developmental pattern of the wing skeleton ensue. As the grafted tissue, which apparently does not contain prospective chondrogenic cells, develops as a flat implant, the normal geometry of the ectodermal hull is not altered: therefore, the biomechanical conditions and the polarized growth of the skeletogenous mesenchyme of the wing bud, which seem to be controlled by the enveloping epithelium, remain practically unchanged.
Morphological alterations of the skeletal pieces of the wing and formation of ectopic cartilage follow instead the implantation on the dorsal face of the wing bud, in normal or 180° reversed orientationm of an ecto- and mesodermal sheet similar to the one mentioned above but containing also a varying amount of the mesenchyme lying beneath the superficial vessel network.
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Amprino, R. Relationships between ectoderm and skeletal morphogenesis in the chick embryo limb bud. Anat. Embryol. 153, 305–320 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00315933
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