Table 1:

Vagal neural crest contribution to various organ tissue types and their somite-level of origin.

Organ contribution		Tissue types		Species	Neural crest axial level			References
Thymus		Mesenchyme of lobes, pericytes, smooth muscle		Chick, mouse, frog	post-otic, somite 1-5			Lievre & Le Douarin (1975); Bockman & Kirby (1984); Kuratani & Bockman (1990); Kuratani & Bockman (1991); Foster et al. (2008); Muller et al. (2008); Lee et al.(2013)
Thyroid, parathyroid		Mesenchyme, pericytes		Chick	post-otic, somite 1-5			Lievre & Le Douarin (1975); Bockman & Kirby (1984); Maeda et al. (2016)
Cardiac		Aorticopulmonary system, smooth muscle of aortic arches, ganglia		Chick, mouse	post-otic, somite 1-3 (chick); somite 1-4 (mouse)			Chan et al. (2004); Espinosa-Medina et al. (2017); Jiang et al., 2000; Kuo and Erickson (2011); Kirby and Stewart, 1983; Kirby et al. 1993., ; Kuratani and Kirby, 1991; Nishibatake et al. 1987 ; Phillips et al., 1987
Cardiac		Aortic arch arteries,		Frog	hyoid/branchial			Lee & Saint-Jeannet (2011)
	aortic sac					streams, somite 1-4
Cardiac	Cardiomyocytes		Zebrafish			post-otic, somite 1-6	Cavanaugh et al. (2015); Sato and Yost (2003)
Lung	Ganglia		Human, mouse, chick			somite 1-7	Burns & Delanlande ; (2005); Burns et al. (2008); Freem et al. (2010); Freem et al. (2012)
Pancreas	Ganglia		Chick, mouse, rat			somite 1-7	Fontaine et al (1977); Kirchgessner et al. (1992); Nekrep et al. (2008); Plank et al. (2011)