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Cover: Representatives of notable phyla in the evolution of the first nervous systems. Clockwise from top left: the ctenophore Pleurobrachia (photo credit: Leonid Moroz); the sea anemone Nematostella (photo credit: Eric Rottinger); sponge choanocytes (photo credit: Sally Leys); the scyphozoan jellyfish Cyanea (photo credit: Peter Anderson); the brain of an acoel worm (photo credit: Elena Perea-Atienza and Brenda Gavilán). Centre: a choanoflagellate colony (photo credit: Pawel Burkhardt). - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
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SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution of the First Nervous Systems
INSIDE JEB
EDITORIAL
ORIGINS OF THE ‘NEURONAL TOOL BOX’
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER – THE EMERGENCE OF NERVOUS SYSTEMS
New funding schemes for junior faculty staff

In celebration of our 100th anniversary, JEB has launched two new grants to support junior faculty staff working in animal comparative physiology and biomechanics who are within five years of setting up their first lab/research group. Check out our ECR Visiting Fellowships and Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grants.
JEB@100: an interview with Monitoring Editor Stuart Egginton

Stuart Egginton reveals how he overcame the challenges of being a comparative physiologist in a medical school and how he would tell his younger self to trust his instincts when pursuing new ideas.
Travelling Fellowships from JEB

Our Travelling Fellowships offer up to £3,000 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. Next deadline to apply is 27 October 2023
Feedforward and feedback control in the neuromechanics

Auke J. Ijspeert and Monica A. Daley provide an overview of key knowledge gained from comparative vertebrate experiments and insights obtained from neuromechanical simulations and robotic approaches. Read the full Centenary Review Article here.
Light fine-tunes electric fish pulses to keep them in the shade

Weakly electric fish perceive their surroundings through electric chirrups and now Ana Camargo & colleagues have revealed that light fine-tunes the fish's electric pulses to ensure that they remain scheduled beneath the mats of vegetation they use for shelter, avoiding penetrating beams of light that could give them away.