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Breaking the ladder: Evolution of the ventral nerve cord in Annelida
Conrad Helm, Patrick Beckers, Thomas Bartolomaeus…·Christoph Bleidorn
The paper reconstructs the evolution of the annelid ventral nerve cord using phylogenomic and morphological analyses, finding that a subepidermal ladder-like nerve cord is derived, not ancestral.
DOI 10.1101/378661