Back to the basics

• Verfasst von: Bosch, Thomas C. G. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Holstein, Thomas W. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Jékely, Gáspár [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Back to the basics
• Titelzusatz: cnidarians start to fire
• Verf.angabe: Thomas C.G. Bosch, Alexander Klimovich, Tomislav Domazet-Lošo, Stefan Gründer, Thomas W. Holstein, Gáspár Jékely, David J. Miller, Andrea P. Murillo-Rincon, Fabian Rentzsch, Gemma S. Richards, Katja Schröder, Ulrich Technau and Rafael Yuste
• E-Jahr: 2017
• Jahr: February 2017
• Umfang: 14 S.
• Fussnoten: Available online 30 December 2016 ; Gesehen am 17.11.2018
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Trends in neurosciences
• Ort Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science, 1978
• Jahr Quelle: 2017
• Band/Heft Quelle: 40(2017), 2, Seite 92-105
• ISSN Quelle: 1878-108X
• DOI: doi:10.1016/j.tins.2016.11.005
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: BRAIN Initiative
• Sach-SW: CRISPR
• Sach-SW: imaging
• K10plus-PPN: 1583805605

Abstract

The nervous systems of cnidarians, pre-bilaterian animals that diverged close to the base of the metazoan radiation, are structurally simple and thus have great potential to reveal fundamental principles of neural circuits. Unfortunately, cnidarians have thus far been relatively intractable to electrophysiological and genetic techniques and consequently have been largely passed over by neurobiologists. However, recent advances in molecular and imaging methods are fueling a renaissance of interest in and research into cnidarians nervous systems. Here, we review current knowledge on the nervous systems of cnidarian species and propose that researchers should seize this opportunity and undertake the study of members of this phylum as strategic experimental systems with great basic and translational relevance for neuroscience.