Where is my mind? How sponges and placozoans may have lost neural cell types

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1684, 2015, Pages

  Ryan, Joseph F ^a   Chiodin, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal evolution; Ctenophora; Loss; Nervous system; Placozoa; Porifera

Indexed keywords

CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; COMPLEXITY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; LITERATURE REVIEW; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYLOGENETICS;

ANIMALIA; CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); PLACOZOA; PORIFERA;

ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACOZOA; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; PLACOZOA; PORIFERA;

EID: 84946780464     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0059     Document Type: Review

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