The brain regulatory program predates central nervous system evolution [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Understanding how brains evolved is critical to determine the origin(s) of centralized nervous systems. Brains are patterned along their anteroposterior axis by stripes of gene expression that appear to be conserved, suggesting brains are homologous ...
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Voltage-gated ion channel diversity underlies neuronal excitability and nervous system evolution [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsNervous systems function via electrical excitability mediated by ion channels, an ancient preneuronal feature that many cells use to rapidly adjust behavior.
Jose Davila-Velderrain, Lena van Giesen
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Intron and gene size expansion during nervous system evolution [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2020 Background The evolutionary radiation of animals was accompanied by extensive expansion of gene and genome sizes, increased isoform diversity, and complexity of regulation.
Matthew J. McCoy, Andrew Z. Fire
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The neuroanatomy of the siboglinid Riftia pachyptila highlights sedentarian annelid nervous system evolution. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Tracing the evolution of the siboglinid group, peculiar group of marine gutless annelids, requires the detailed study of the fragmentarily explored central nervous system of vestimentiferans and other siboglinids.
Nadezhda N Rimskaya-Korsakova +2 more
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Introduction to 'Homology and convergence in nervous system evolution'. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2016 Strausfeld NJ, Hirth F.
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Evolution of sodium channels and the new view of early nervous system evolution. [PDF]
Commun Integr Biol, 2011 Liebeskind BJ.
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Dynamics of neural activity in early nervous system evolution. [PDF]
Curr Opin Behav SciKennedy A, Weissbourd B.
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Embracing the comparative approach: how robust phylogenies and broader developmental sampling impacts the understanding of nervous system evolution. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2015 Hejnol A, Lowe CJ.
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Incorporating evolution into neuroscience teaching
Frontiers in Education, 2023 Neuroscience courses can be enriched by including an evolutionary perspective. To that end, this essay identifies several concepts critical to understanding nervous system evolution and offers numerous examples that can be used to illustrate those ...
Georg F. Striedter
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Nitric oxide signaling in ctenophores
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 Nitric oxide (NO) is one of the most ancient and versatile signal molecules across all domains of life. NO signaling might also play an essential role in the origin of animal organization.
Leonid L. Moroz +3 more
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