Behavioral ontogeny in a pelagic tunicate reveals the deep origins of chordate behavioral developmental plasticity.
Oleg O. Tolstenkov, Rodolfo Baldinotti, Sissel Norland…·Marios Chatzigeorgiou
The paper builds a behavioral atlas of Oikopleura dioica across its life cycle, revealing developmental changes in behavior and morphology that suggest deep evolutionary origins of chordate behavioral plasticity.