A key innovation in animal evolution, the emergence of neurogenesis: Cellular and molecular cues from cnidarian nervous systems

Key Transitions in Animal Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 127-161

  Galliot, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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