The origin and evolution of synapses. Ryan, T. J & Grant, S. G N Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 10(10):701–12, October, 2009.
The origin and evolution of synapses. [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
Understanding the evolutionary origins of behaviour is a central aim in the study of biology and may lead to insights into human disorders. Synaptic transmission is observed in a wide range of invertebrate and vertebrate organisms and underlies their behaviour. Proteomic studies of the molecular components of the highly complex mammalian postsynaptic machinery point to an ancestral molecular machinery in unicellular organisms–the protosynapse–that existed before the evolution of metazoans and neurons, and hence challenges existing views on the origins of the brain. The phylogeny of the molecular components of the synapse provides a new model for studying synapse diversity and complexity, and their implications for brain evolution.
@article{Ryan2009,
	title = {The origin and evolution of synapses.},
	volume = {10},
	issn = {1471-0048},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19738623},
	doi = {10.1038/nrn2717},
	abstract = {Understanding the evolutionary origins of behaviour is a central aim in the study of biology and may lead to insights into human disorders. Synaptic transmission is observed in a wide range of invertebrate and vertebrate organisms and underlies their behaviour. Proteomic studies of the molecular components of the highly complex mammalian postsynaptic machinery point to an ancestral molecular machinery in unicellular organisms--the protosynapse--that existed before the evolution of metazoans and neurons, and hence challenges existing views on the origins of the brain. The phylogeny of the molecular components of the synapse provides a new model for studying synapse diversity and complexity, and their implications for brain evolution.},
	number = {10},
	urldate = {2013-08-07},
	journal = {Nature reviews. Neuroscience},
	author = {Ryan, Tomás J and Grant, Seth G N},
	month = oct,
	year = {2009},
	pmid = {19738623},
	keywords = {\#nosource, Animals, Biological Evolution, Brain, Brain: cytology, Brain: physiology, Cell Communication, Cell Communication: physiology, Humans, Models, Biological, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Nerve Tissue Proteins: metabolism, Neurons, Neurons: cytology, Neurons: physiology, Signal Transduction, Signal Transduction: physiology, Synapses, Synapses: physiology},
	pages = {701--12},
}

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