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Syncytial nerve net in a ctenophore adds insights on the evolution of nervous systems.
Paper summary
Volume electron microscopy and three-dimensional reconstructions reveal membrane continuity in a ctenophore nerve net, forming a syncytium. This architecture differs from a simple assumption that all nervous systems consist only of separate connected cells.
Relevance to the project
A boundary and substrate comparison showing that biological neural organization has alternatives. The project can retain discrete neurons without treating that abstraction as universal biology.
The result concerns the studied nerve net, not every ctenophore cell or nervous system.
Source record
- Reference ID
- pmid-37079688
- Archived version
- Europe PMC hosted article; publication/manuscript status is specified in source XML
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/pmid-37079688/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.