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Volume 218, Issue 4
February 2015
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Peter A. V. Anderson
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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).
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ISSN 0022-0949
EISSN 1477-9145

SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution of the First Nervous Systems

INSIDE JEB

Evolution of the first nervous systems – what can we surmise?
Dirk Bucher,Peter A. V. Anderson
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EDITORIAL

On the origins of that most transformative of biological systems – the nervous system
Peter A. V. Anderson
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ORIGINS OF THE ‘NEURONAL TOOL BOX’

The origin and evolution of synaptic proteins – choanoflagellates lead the way
Pawel Burkhardt
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Evolution of voltage-gated ion channels at the emergence of Metazoa
Yehu Moran,Maya Gur Barzilai,Benjamin J. Liebeskind,Harold H. Zakon
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Ether-à-go-go family voltage-gated K+ channels evolved in an ancestral metazoan and functionally diversified in a cnidarian–bilaterian ancestor
Xiaofan Li,Alexandra S. Martinson,Michael J. Layden,Fortunay H. Diatta,Anna P. Sberna,David K. Simmons,Mark Q. Martindale,Timothy J. Jegla
View articletitled, Ether-à-go-go family voltage-gated K<sup>+</sup> channels evolved in an ancestral metazoan and functionally diversified in a cnidarian–bilaterian ancestor
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Electrogenesis in the lower Metazoa and implications for neuronal integration
Robert W. Meech
View articletitled, Electrogenesis in the lower Metazoa and implications for neuronal integration
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Peptide-gated ion channels and the simple nervous system of Hydra
Stefan Gründer,Marc Assmann
View articletitled, Peptide-gated ion channels and the simple nervous system of <em>Hydra</em>
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The role of G protein-coupled receptors in the early evolution of neurotransmission and the nervous system
Arunkumar Krishnan,Helgi B. Schiöth
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Neuronal polarity: an evolutionary perspective
Melissa M. Rolls,Timothy J. Jegla
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PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER – THE EMERGENCE OF NERVOUS SYSTEMS

Elements of a ‘nervous system’ in sponges
Sally P. Leys
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The ctenophore lineage is older than sponges? That cannot be right! Or can it?
Kenneth M. Halanych
View articletitled, The ctenophore lineage is older than sponges? That cannot be right! Or can it?
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Convergent evolution of neural systems in ctenophores
Leonid L. Moroz
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The search for ancestral nervous systems: an integrative and comparative approach
Richard A. Satterlie
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The nervous system of Xenacoelomorpha: a genomic perspective
Elena Perea-Atienza,Brenda Gavilán,Marta Chiodin,Josep F. Abril,Katharina J. Hoff,Albert J. Poustka,Pedro Martinez
View articletitled, The nervous system of Xenacoelomorpha: a genomic perspective
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Larval nervous systems: true larval and precocious adult
Claus Nielsen
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Evolution of basal deuterostome nervous systems
Linda Z. Holland
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Accepted manuscripts
Active smelling in the American cockroach
Antoine Hoffmann, Einat Couzin-Fuchs
Observations on neurophysiological pattern and behavioural traits as death-feigning mechanism in Eucryptorrhynchus scrobiculatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Huijuan Li, Lu Wang, Junbao Wen
Contrast sensitivity, visual acuity, and the effect of behavioural state on optokinetic gain in fiddler crabs
Monika Perez, Zahra M. Bagheri, Courtney Brown, Yuri Ogawa, Julian C. Partridge, Jan M. Hemmi
Higher-order dialectic variation and syntactic convergence in the complex warble song of budgerigars
Abhinava Jagan Madabhushi, Nakul Wewhare, Priya Binwal, Vaishnavi Agarwal, Anand Krishnan
The effects of temperature on elastic energy storage and release in a system with a dynamic mechanical advantage latch
Elizabeth Mendoza, Maya Martinez, Jeffrey P. Olberding, Manny Azizi
More accepted manuscripts

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

 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

Travelling Fellowship Ad banner depicting a grant recipient in the sea gathering specimens for scientific research 

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

 Hypothesized control gradients in the diversity of animal locomotion 

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

Camargo and colleagues studied the light avoidance behavior by monitoring whether fish prefer to stay in the shade or the bright side of a small tank  

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.

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