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SUBMITTER: Strausfeld N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7872517 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Strausfeld Nicholas N Sayre Marcel E ME
eLife 20210209
Neural organization of mushroom bodies is largely consistent across insects, whereas the ancestral ground pattern diverges broadly across crustacean lineages resulting in successive loss of columns and the acquisition of domed centers retaining ancestral Hebbian-like networks and aminergic connections. We demonstrate here a major departure from this evolutionary trend in Brachyura, the most recent malacostracan lineage. In the shore crab <i>Hemigrapsus nudus</i>, instead of occupying the rostral ...[more]