develops_from develops from contributes to morphology of anatomical entity anatomical entity muscle organ myotome http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Gray65.png EMAPA:32841 XAO:0000315 EHDAA2_RETIRED:0003431 Portion of the somites giving rise to body wall muscle masses. Kimmel et al, 1995.[TAO] AAO:0011067 myomere UBERON:0003082 BTO:0000742 myomeres EHDAA:1733 EHDAA:1739 myotomes UMLS:C1513802 muscle plate Wikipedia:Myotome myotomus ZFA:0001056 FMA:295658 A transitional population of migrating mesenchymal cells that derive from somites and that will become muscle cells. EHDAA:1721 VHOG:0001244 TAO:0001056 NCIT:C34214 AEO:0001018 SCTID:344535001 The term 'myotome' is also used to describe the muscles served by a single nerve root / spinal segment - consider adding new class, myomere. EHDAA:1727 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] uberon myotome region dermomyotome developing mesenchymal structure