Neuronal remodeling on the evolutionary timescale.
Despite its remarkable capacity to undergo change at timescales ranging from a fraction of a second to a lifetime, there are many aspects of the nervous system that can be modified only at the enormously longer evolutionary timescale. A new study in BMC Biology using nematodes illustrates such evolutionary neuronal remodeling.
Rabinowitch
Ithai
I
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.
Schafer
William
W
D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000502:physiology*