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Excitation over jelly nerves

Analysis of the draft genome of a comb jelly and of gene-transcription profiles from ten other ctenophores hints at an independent evolutionary origin for the nervous systems of these organisms. See Article p.109

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Figure 1: Dual origins of nerves.

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Hejnol, A. Excitation over jelly nerves. Nature 510, 38–39 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13340

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