The premetazoan ancestry of the synaptic toolkit and appearance of first neurons

J Colgren, P Burkhardt - Essays in Biochemistry, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Neurons, especially when coupled with muscles, allow animals to interact with and navigate
through their environment in ways unique to life on earth. Found in all major animal lineages …

Ctenophores and the evolutionary origin (s) of neurons

P Burkhardt - Trends in Neurosciences, 2022 - cell.com
Ctenophores (commonly known as comb jellies) are among the earliest branching extant
lineages of the animal kingdom. Here, I present a brief overview of the ctenophore nervous …

Alternative neural systems: what is a neuron?(ctenophores, sponges and placozoans)

LL Moroz, DY Romanova - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
How to make a neuron, a synapse, and a neural circuit? Is there only one 'design'for a
neural architecture with a universally shared genomic blueprint across species? The brief …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of the ribbon-like organization of the Golgi apparatus in animal cells

G Benvenuto, S Leone, E Astoricchio, S Bormke… - Cell reports, 2024 - cell.com
The" ribbon," a structural arrangement in which Golgi stacks connect to each other, is
considered to be restricted to vertebrate cells. Although ribbon disruption is linked to various …

An Echinoderm Model to Study the Ribbon Organization of the Golgi Apparatus

E Astoricchio - 2024 - oro.open.ac.uk
The Golgi apparatus is central to the physiology of eukaryotic cells and its main functions are
the post-translational modifications of proteins and the sorting of cargoes. The common …