scholarly journals Evolution of synapses and neurotransmitter systems: The divide-and-conquer model for early neural cell-type evolution

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 127-138
Author(s):  
Pawel Burkhardt ◽  
Gáspár Jékely
2011 ◽  
Vol 286 (50) ◽  
pp. 42971-42980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan S. Gadd ◽  
Mugdha Bhati ◽  
Cy M. Jeffries ◽  
David B. Langley ◽  
Jill Trewhella ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Pawel Burkhardt ◽  
Gáspár Jékely

Nervous systems evolved around 560 million years ago to coordinate and empower animal bodies. Ctenophores – one of the earliest-branching lineages – are thought to share few neuronal genes with bilaterians and may have evolved neurons convergently. Here we review our current understanding of the evolution of neuronal molecules in non-bilaterians. We also reanalyse single-cell sequencing data in light of new cell-cluster identities from a ctenophore and uncover evidence supporting the homology of one ctenophore neuron-type with neurons in Bilateria. The specific coexpression of the presynaptic proteins Unc13 and RIM with voltage-gated channels, neuropeptides and homeobox genes pinpoint a spiking sensory-peptidergic cell in the ctenophore mouth. Similar Unc13-RIM neurons may have been present in the first eumetazoans to rise to dominance only in stem Bilateria. We hypothesize that the Unc13-RIM lineage ancestrally innervated the mouth and conquered other parts of the body with the rise of macrophagy and predation during the Cambrian explosion.


1996 ◽  
Vol 16 (24) ◽  
pp. 7941-7949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Hardy ◽  
Carrie L. Loushin ◽  
Victor L. Friedrich Jr. ◽  
Qi Chen ◽  
Thomas A. Ebersole ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (12) ◽  
pp. 5127-5137 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Jovicic ◽  
R. Roshan ◽  
N. Moisoi ◽  
S. Pradervand ◽  
R. Moser ◽  
...  

1996 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitsuhiro Hashimoto ◽  
Jun Aruga ◽  
Yasuhiko Hosoya ◽  
Yumi Kanegae ◽  
Izumu Saito ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 552-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shujuan Li ◽  
Qingqing Dai ◽  
Jinling Yu ◽  
Ting Liu ◽  
Shuiqiao Liu ◽  
...  

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