Mesoderm autonomous

Barlow LA, Northcutt RG (1997) Taste buds develop autonomously from endoderm without induction by cephalic neural crest or paraxial mesoderm. Development 124 949-957... 

Myoepithelia Basket-shaped, mononuclear cells surrounding the acini of exocrine glands have cytoplasmic fibrils resembling smooth muscle derived from ectoderm rather than mesoderm. Contraction stimulated by hormones (e.g., oxytocin) and presumably by autonomic nerves may have noncontractile functions such as pressure transduction in the renal cortex. Contraction to expel contents of exocrine glands (salivary, sweat, mammary) form the dilator muscle of the iris may be the pressure transducers in juxtaglomerular cells. 

As described in chapters 2 and 3, the primordia of the different mesodermal tissues arise at precisely defined positions within the mesodermal layer. In large part, this is believed to be a result of the spatially restricted activation (or repression) of control genes that determine (or suppress) the formation of particular tissues in a cell-autonomous fashion. Each primordium or field of precursors of a particular tissue is defined by its position along the dorsoventral axis and anteroposterior axis. Classi-... 

Greig, S., and Akam, M. (1993). Homeotic genes autonomously specify one aspect of pattern in the Drosophila mesoderm. Nature 362 630-632. 

Michelson, A. (1994). Muscle pattern diversification in Drosophila is determined by the autonomous function of homeotic genes in the embryonic mesoderm. Development J20 755-768. 

James RG, Schultheiss TM. 2005. Bmp signahng promotes intermediate mesoderm gene expression in a dose-dependent, cell-autonomous and translation-dependent manner. Dev Biol 288(1) 113-125. 

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