Abstract
Somitogenesis is a term that encompasses somite formation, patterning and differentiation and it is a process that is fundamental to the formation of the axial skeleton in vertebrates. Notch signalling is a mechanism used to specify cell fate in many different contexts, with signalling occurring between cells in contact. Notch signalling is fundamental to the formation and patterning of somites and importantly a ligand of Notch, is mutated in the abnormal vertebral segmentation syndrome spondylocostal dysostosis. Here we discuss what is known about the expression and function of this ligand, Delta-like-3, during somitogenesis and vertebral column formation in mouse and humans.
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