Sea smarts: Scientists studying mollusks discover there is more than one way to make a brain

Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 07:01 in Biology & Nature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Seemingly simple animals such as the snail and squid have ransacked the genetic toolkit over the last half billion years to find different ways to build complex brains, nervous systems and shells, according to an international team of researchers, including a neuroscientist with the University of Florida Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience.

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