Modelling the effects of short and random proto-neural elongations

The origin of animals: Can molecular clocks and the fossil record be reconciled?

(2016) John A. Cunningham et al.   BIOESSAYS

From nerve net to nerve ring, nerve cord and brain — evolution of the nervous system

(2016) Detlev Arendt et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Moving and sensing without input and output: early nervous systems and the origins of the animal sensorimotor organization

(2015) Fred Keijzer   BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

The origin and evolution of synaptic proteins - choanoflagellates lead the way

(2015) P. Burkhardt   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Early animal evolution and the origins of nervous systems

(2015) G. E. Budd   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Molecular clocks and the early evolution of metazoan nervous systems

(2015) G. A. Wray   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Early metazoan life: divergence, environment and ecology

(2015) D. H. Erwin   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Independent origins of neurons and synapses: insights from ctenophores

(2015) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An option space for early neural evolution

(2015) G. Jekely et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Modeling spontaneous activity across an excitable epithelium: Support for a coordination scenario of early neural evolution

(2015) Oltman O. de Wiljes et al.   Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Predation and the Origin of Neurones

(2014) Travis Monk et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Novel Cell Types, Neurosecretory Cells, and Body Plan of the Early-Diverging Metazoan Trichoplax adhaerens

(2014) Carolyn L. Smith et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems

(2014) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   NATURE

What nervous systems do: early evolution, input–output, and the skin brain thesis

(2013) Fred Keijzer et al.   ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR

Life cycle evolution: was the eumetazoan ancestor a holopelagic, planktotrophic gastraea?

(2013) Claus Nielsen   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

New insights on ctenophore neural anatomy: Immunofluorescence study in Pleurobrachia pileus (Müller, 1776)

(2011) Muriel Jager et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Evolution of sodium channels predates the origin of nervous systems in animals

(2011) B. J. Liebeskind et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Six major steps in animal evolution: are we derived sponge larvae?

(2010) Claus Nielsen   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Origin and early evolution of neural circuits for the control of ciliary locomotion

(2010) G. Jekely   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

On the Independent Origins of Complex Brains and Neurons

(2009) Leonid L. Moroz   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

The origin and evolution of synapses

(2009) Tomás J. Ryan et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Lineage Explanations: Explaining How Biological Mechanisms Change

(2008) B. Calcott   BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Brian: a simulator for spiking neural networks in Python

(2008) Dan Goodman   Frontiers in Neuroinformatics