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From nerve net to nerve ring, nerve cord and brain — evolution of the nervous system
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The puzzle of how complex nervous systems emerged remains unsolved. Comparative studies of neurodevelopment in cnidarians and bilaterians suggest that this process began with distinct integration centres that evolved on opposite ends of an initial nerve net. The 'apical nervous system' controlled general body physiology, and the 'blastoporal nervous system' coordinated feeding movements and locomotion. We propose that expansion, integration and fusion of these centres gave rise to the bilaterian nerve cord and brain.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Arendt, D., Tosches, M. A., & Marlow, H.
- Affiliations
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (DE)
- Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (DE)
- Institut Pasteur (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Arendt, Detlev
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- Published
- 2015-12-17
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 61-72
- ISSN
- 1471-003X (ISSN-L)
- 1471-0048
- OpenAlex
- W2219074388
- Semantic Scholar
- 2fbc72eec919edc88420c319071f50b0f6a4536d
- Cited by
- 279
- References
- 153
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 42 · 2022: 33 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 29 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 27 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 2.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature reviews. Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
- Keywords
- nervous system evolution, nerve net, nerve ring, nerve cord, brain evolution, gene expression comparison
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brain, Biological Evolution, Humans, Nerve Net, Nervous System, Nervous System Physiological Phenomena, Neurons
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