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The phylogenetic position of ctenophores and the origin(s) of nervous systems

Overview of attention for article published in EvoDevo, January 2015
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Title
The phylogenetic position of ctenophores and the origin(s) of nervous systems
Published in
EvoDevo, January 2015
DOI 10.1186/2041-9139-6-1
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Authors

Gáspár Jékely, Jordi Paps, Claus Nielsen

Abstract

Ctenophores have traditionally been treated as eumetazoans, but some recent whole genome studies have revived the idea that they are, rather, the sister group to all other metazoans. This deep branching position implies either that nervous systems have evolved twice, in Ctenophora and in Eumetazoa, or that an ancestral metazoan nervous system has been lost in sponges and placozoans. We caution, however, that phylogenetic-tree construction artifacts may have placed ctenophores too deep in the metazoan tree. We discuss nervous system origins under these alternative phylogenies and in light of comparative data of ctenophore and eumetazoan nervous systems. We argue that characters like neuropeptide signaling, ciliary photoreceptors, gap junctions and presynaptic molecules are consistent with a shared ancestry of nervous systems. However, if ctenophores are the sister group to all other metazoans, this ancestral nervous system was likely very simple. Further studies are needed to resolve the deep phylogeny of metazoans and to have a better understanding of the early steps of nervous system evolution.

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Country Count As %
Germany 4 1%
United States 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Uruguay 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 285 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 68 22%
Student > Bachelor 59 19%
Researcher 44 15%
Student > Master 34 11%
Other 16 5%
Other 47 16%
Unknown 35 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 145 48%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 63 21%
Environmental Science 16 5%
Neuroscience 11 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 6 2%
Other 16 5%
Unknown 46 15%
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