From promiscuity to specialization: The origin of cholinergic and monoaminergic signaling is pre-bilaterian
The emergence of chemical neurotransmission was key to the evolution of nervous systems, yet when the different transmitter systems arose remains unclear. Biogenic amines (here, acetylcholine and the monoamines) have been reported in non-bilaterian animals and even outside Metazoa, but their physiological role has only recently begun to be resolved, and phylogenetic surveys of the bilaterian…
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