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SUBMITTER: Martin-Duran JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5756474 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Martín-Durán José M JM Pang Kevin K Børve Aina A Lê Henrike Semmler HS Furu Anlaug A Cannon Johanna Taylor JT Jondelius Ulf U Hejnol Andreas A
Nature 20171213 7686
It has been hypothesized that a condensed nervous system with a medial ventral nerve cord is an ancestral character of Bilateria. The presence of similar dorsoventral molecular patterns along the nerve cords of vertebrates, flies, and an annelid has been interpreted as support for this scenario. Whether these similarities are generally found across the diversity of bilaterian neuroanatomies is unclear, and thus the evolutionary history of the nervous system is still contentious. Here we study re ...[more]