The Ancient Origins of Neural Substrates for Land Walking.
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SUBMITTER: Jung H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5808577 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
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The Ancient Origins of Neural Substrates for Land Walking.
Jung Heekyung H Baek Myungin M D'Elia Kristen P KP Boisvert Catherine C Currie Peter D PD Tay Boon-Hui BH Venkatesh Byrappa B Brown Stuart M SM Heguy Adriana A Schoppik David D Dasen Jeremy S JS
Cell 20180201 4
Walking is the predominant locomotor behavior expressed by land-dwelling vertebrates, but it is unknown when the neural circuits that are essential for limb control first appeared. Certain fish species display walking-like behaviors, raising the possibility that the underlying circuitry originated in primitive marine vertebrates. We show that the neural substrates of bipedalism are present in the little skate Leucoraja erinacea, whose common ancestor with tetrapods existed ∼420 million years ago ...[more]
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