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  • But technologies that let researchers track cells during embryo development finally allowed them to watch the neural crest's development, culminating in the attachment of head to the body at its front, while the back attachment springs from the mesoderm tissue layer.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • Captain Donaju had wanted permission to join the men firing at the French from the crest's ridge, but Tarrant had been so worried by the proximity of the attackers that he had ordered the Real Compan-a Irlandesa to stay close to the ammunition wagons that he was busily having harnessed to their horses or oxen.

    Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

  • A lot of small-bodied birds struggled during the harsh winter we have had, and numbers of Long-tailed tits Coal tits and Gold crest's have declined significantly over the last year.

    Whitehaven News headlines 2010

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