Brain organization and the origin of insects: an assessment
- 25 February 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Proceedings. Biological sciences
- Vol. 276 (1664), 1929-1937
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.1471
Abstract
Within the Arthropoda, morphologies of neurons, the organization of neurons within neuropils and the occurrence of neuropils can be highly conserved and provide robust characters for phylogenetic analyses. The present paper reviews some features of insect and crustacean brains that speak against an entomostracan origin of the insects, contrary to received opinion. Neural organization in brain centres, comprising olfactory pathways, optic lobes and a central neuropil that is thought to play a cardinal role in multi-joint movement, support affinities between insects and malacostracan crustaceans.This publication has 55 references indexed in Scilit:
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