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phylogeny

Posted by RichardWeinberg on 12 Oct 2009 at 20:40 GMT

I'm a mammalian neurobiologist, so it's away from my specialty, but I had the idea that current evidence considered comb jellies at the base of metazoan phylogeny, and viewed sponges as a later development (with secondary dedifferentiation)?
I believe the comb jellies have morphologically-identifiable synapses.

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