Quail-chick interspecies chimeras reveal the migration pathways of crest-derived cells
•Chick crest is removed before migration begins.
•Replaced with a graft of quail crest.
–Quail crest cells migrate in host.
•Quail crest cells are stably marked by their distinctive nucleolus-associated heterochromatin.
•Location of quail cells reveals destinations reached by migrating crest-derived cells.