Evolution of synapses and neurotransmitter systems: The divide-and-conquer model for early neural cell-type evolution
Evolution of synapses and neurotransmitter systems: The divide-and-conquer model for early neural cell-type evolution
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DOI:
10.1016/j.conb.2021.11.002
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发表时间:
2021-12-01
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5.7
通讯作者:
Jekely, Gaspar
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作者:
Burkhardt, Pawel;Jekely, Gaspar
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 a few neuronal genes with bilaterians and may have evolved neurons convergently. Here we review our current understanding of the evolution of neuronal molecules in nonbilaterians. We also reanalyse single-cell sequencing data in light of new cellcluster 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 hypothesise 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.