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MinireviewNeuronal remodeling on the evolutionary timescaleIthai Rabinowitch and William Schafer  MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK author email corresponding author email
Journal of Biology 2008,
7:37doi:10.1186/jbiol102
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15 December 2008 |
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. |