Uberon related term : endomesoderm; future endoderm and mesoderm; mesendoderm;
Uberon Homology note : In mammal and avian, extraembryonic endoderm such as visceral endoderm and hypoblast
play essential roles in the embryonic axis formation and germ layer development. These
extraembryonic tissues are generally considered to have been created in ancestral
amniotes evolved from the Xenopus-type ancestor (reference 1); The endomesoderm secretes
as yet unidentified signals that posteriorize the ectoderm, which would otherwise
adopt an anterior fate. Our results point to a conserved function at the base of deuterostomes
for beta-catenin in germ layer specification and to a causal link in the definition
of the posterior part of the embryonic ectoderm by way of activating posteriorizing
endomesodermal factors (reference 2).[well established][VHOG];