Tese de doutoramento, Biologia (Biologia do Desenvolvimento), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, 2013; The formation of the string of individual somite segments is a hallmark morphogenetic event during embryonic development, establishing the basic foundations of the vertebrate body. Somites pinch off from the mesenchymal presomitic mesoderm on either side of the neural tube, as epithelial blocks of ...