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The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems.
Paper summary
Analyzes a ctenophore genome and neural molecular machinery, finding substantial differences from other animal lineages. The paper uses these observations to investigate competing accounts of nervous-system evolution.
Relevance to the project
Supports avoiding a single mandatory biological blueprint for the neural engine. Existing mechanisms may support different organizational histories and functions.
Independent neural origins are an interpretation within an unresolved phylogenetic debate.
Source record
- Reference ID
- doi-10-1038-nature13400
- Archived version
- Publisher PDF registered with Crossref
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/doi-10-1038-nature13400/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.