Preferred Label : branchiomeric muscle;
Uberon definition : A jaw muscle that arises from cranial mesenchyme and is innervated by cranial nerves.;
Uberon synonym : branchial head muscle; branchiomeric skeletal muscle;
Uberon Taxon note : It has been hypothesized that Haikouella must have been powered by branchiomeric muscles,
as in living craniates, rather than by water moving through the pharynx via ciliary
currents, as in lancelets[http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/42/4/743.full];
Origin ID : 0004164;
composed primarily of
- develops from
A jaw muscle that arises from cranial mesenchyme and is innervated by cranial nerves.
