Response to Comment on The lower Cambrian lobopodian Cardiodictyon resolves the origin of euarthropod brains

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: Strausfeld, Nicholas J.; Hou, Xianguang; Sayre, Marcel E.; Hirth, Frank
• 署名单位: University of Arizona; Yunnan University; Lund University; Macquarie University; University of London; King's College London
• 刊物名称: SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0036-8834
• DOI: 10.1126/science.adg6051
• 发表日期: 2023-06-30
• 关键词: euperipatoides-kanangrensis; expression patterns; onychophoran; genes; EVOLUTION; reveal; fate; head

摘要

Budd et al. challenge the identity of neural traces reported for the Cambrian lobopodian Cardiodictyon catenulum. Their argumentation is unsupported, as are objections with reference to living Onychophora that misinterpret established genomic, genetic, developmental, and neuroanatomical evidence. Instead, phylogenetic data corroborate the finding that the ancestral panarthropod head and brain is unsegmented, as in C. catenulum.