prosomere

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prosomere (plural prosomeres)

  1. Any of the six subdivisions thought to compose the embryonic forebrain
    • 2015 July 6, “Conserved Noncoding Sequences Regulate lhx5 Expression in the Zebrafish Forebrain”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Based on the prosomeric model [40 –42 ], prethalamus corresponds to prosomere 3 (p3).