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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 ...
Dylan Faltine-Gonzalez +2 more
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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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Channelling evolution: canalization and the nervous system. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2004 A recent paper suggests that genes can interact in networks to limit variation of phenotype.
Jeremy E Niven
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A developmental perspective on the evolution of the nervous system [PDF]
Developmental Biology, 2021 The evolution of nervous systems in animals has always fascinated biologists, and thus multiple evolutionary scenarios have been proposed to explain the appearance of neurons and complex neuronal centers. However, the absence of a robust phylogenetic framework for animal interrelationships, the lack of a mechanistic understanding of development, and a ...
JOSÉ Maria Martin-Duran +1 more
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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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Introduction to ‘Origin and evolution of the nervous system’ [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2015 In 1665, Robert Hooke demonstrated in Micrographia the power of the microscope and comparative observations, one of which revealed similarities between the arthropod and vertebrate eyes.
Frank Hirth, Nicholas Strausfeld
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The origin and evolution of chordate nervous systems [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2015 In the past 40 years, comparisons of developmental gene expression and mechanisms of development (evodevo) joined comparative morphology as tools for reconstructing long-extinct ancestral forms. Unfortunately, both approaches typically give congruent answers only with closely related organisms. Chordate nervous systems are good examples.
Linda Holland
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The evolution of the serotonergic nervous system
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2000 The pattern of development of the serotonergic nervous system is described from the larvae of ctenophores, platyhelminths, nemerteans, entoprocts, ectoprocts (bryozoans), molluscs, polychaetes, brachiopods, phoronids, echinoderms, enteropneusts and lampreys.
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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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Origin and Evolution of the Nervous System Considered from the Diffuse Nervous System of Cnidarians
Hikaku seiri seikagaku(Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry), 2016 Cnidarians have the most primitive nervous system in animal kingdom. Diffuse nerve net (called “diffuse nervous system”) covers the whole body. Cnidarians are considered the earliest metazoans to have evolved a nervous system and therefore offer possible insight into some of the fundamental properties of early nervous system.
Osamu Koizumi, Koizumi Osamu
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