The pre-nervous system and beyond-poriferan milestones in the early evolution of the metazoan nervous system

Key Transitions in Animal Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 85-126

  Nickel, Michael ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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