El patrón de base neural de los quelicerados en un gran apéndice de artrópodos del Cámbrico

Gengo Tanaka1, Xianguang Hou, Xiaoya Ma

  • 1Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka 2370061, Japan.

Nature
|October 18, 2013
PubMed
Resumen

La neuroanatomía de los artrópodos del período cámbrico temprano revela que su estructura cerebral se asemeja a la de los ciliceratos modernos, lo que apoya su ubicación evolutiva. Este estudio detalla el sistema nervioso de Alalcomenaeus, ofreciendo información sobre la evolución temprana de los artrópodos.

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