Learn about the wide-ranging Ecdysozoa group of animals and how scientists solved the curious case of their nervous systems' ...

A study analyzing Cambrian fossils uncovered that the ancestral ecdysozoan likely had a single ventral nerve cord, ...

Pioneering research reveals the origins of the ventral nerve cord in early molting animals. An international team of ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...

Medically reviewed by Smita Patel, DO Parasitic infections can invade practically any part of the body. Brain parasites, ...

first happened upon the nematode in the 1960s when looking for a suitable system to study the development of the nervous system. He chose to study it over the more established fruit fly Drospohila ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...

Ecdysozoans include arthropods (such as insects and crabs), nematodes (roundworms), and ... and priapulids (“penis worms”). Their nervous system consisting of the brain, and ventral nerve ...

The composition of nodes that effectively transmit sinusoidal waves in a model network resembling C. elegans' electrical synapses network changes according to the waves' wavenumber.