ArticleCurrent biology : CB2018
Animal Evolution: Convergent Nerve Cords?
Article in Current biology : CB, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Revisiting nerve nets: functional organization and evolutionary implications.The EMBO journal · 2026Review
- In Vivo Models of Cardiovascular Disease:Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Antero-posterior patterning in the brittle star Amphipholis squamata and the evolution of echinoderm body plans.EvoDevo · 2025Article
- Unfolding the ventral nerve center of chaetognaths.Neural development · 2024Article
- Expanded expression of pro-neurogenic factor SoxB1 during larval development of gastropodFrontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- The developmental hourglass model is applicable to the spinal cord based on single-cell transcriptomes and non-conserved cis-regulatory elements.Development, growth & differentiation · 2021Article
- The development of early pioneer neurons in the annelid Malacoceros fuliginosus.BMC evolutionary biology · 2020Article
- Evolution of neuronal types and families.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2019Review
- Convergent evolution of the ladder-like ventral nerve cord in Annelida.Frontiers in zoology · 2018Article
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- Expression of NK cluster genes in the onychophoranEvoDevo · 2018Article
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Abstract
How the centralized nervous systems of animals evolved remains unclear. Do the nerve cords found at various positions in the worm-shaped bodies of bilaterian animals have a common or an independent evolutionary origin? New comparative data fuel this long-standing debate.
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