title: Neuronal remodeling on the evolutionary timescale.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.
authors.forename: Ithai
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rabinowitch
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Schafer
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000502:physiology*