Discovery of novel representatives of bilaterian neuropeptide families and reconstruction of neuropeptide precursor evolution in ophiuroid echinoderms
Meet Zandawala, Ismail Moghul, Luis Alfonso Yáñez-Guerra, Jérôme Delroisse, Nikara Abylkassimova, Andrew F. Hugall, Timothy D. O’Hara, Maurice R. Elphick
The paper identifies novel neuropeptide precursors in brittle stars and analyzes their evolutionary changes over 270 million years.
Open Biology · Sep 1, 2017Peer-reviewedNeuroscience