abdominal lateral adult muscle precursor cell [FBbt_00003243]

An adult muscle precursor cell that is located in a lateral cluster of adult muscle precursors in an anterior abdominal segment. This cluster begins life as a pair of cells associated with a posterior branch of the segmental nerve that innervates the segment border muscle (muscle 8) (Bate et al., 1991 and connected to abdominal adult muscle precursor cells in the same segment by filopodia (Figeac et al., 2010. The cluster remains associated with this nerve through most of development, but migrates to the epidermal histoblast nests where muscle formation is initiated during metamorphosis (Bate, 1993. (Bate, 1993, Figeac et al., 2010, Bate et al., 1991)