A transitional population of migrating mesenchymal cells that derive from somites and that will become muscle cells.
Comment:
[homology-note] "In all vertebrates, the skeletal muscle of the body axis is chiefly derived from an early embryonic compartment, known as the myotome.[well established][VHOG]" xsd:string {date_retrieved="2012-09-17", external_class="VHOG:0001244", ontology="VHOG", source="DOI:10.1038/sj.embor.embor920 Hollway GE, Currie PD, Myotome meanderings. Cellular morphogenesis and the making of muscle. EMBO Rep.(2003)", source="http://bgee.unil.ch/"}