An anatomical reconstruction of the ventral nerve cord of a female fruit fly. For use only for news coverage of research from John Tuthill's lab at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

Scientists have unraveled the evolutionary history of the ventral nerve cord in ecdysozoan animals, revealing that the common ancestor likely possessed a single ventral nerve cord. Paired nerve ...

Scientists have discovered an interesting piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord evolved in ecdysozoan animals, a group that includes insects, nematodes, and priapulid worms.

But switching off a second gene encoding for homeobox protein engrailed-1 (En1 gene) in the ventral nerves towards the lower ...