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    Autism-like behaviours and enhanced memory formation and synaptic plasticity in Lrfn2/SALM1-deficient mice

    Lrfn2/SALM1 is a PSD-95-interacting synapse adhesion molecule, and human LRFN2 is associated with learning disabilities. However its role in higher brain function and underlying mechanisms remain unknown. Here, w...

    Naoko Morimura, Hiroki Yasuda, Kazuhiko Yamaguchi in Nature Communications (2017)

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    Dicyema Pax6 and Zic: tool-kit genes in a highly simplified bilaterian

    Dicyemid mesozoans (Phylum Dicyemida) are simple (8–40-cell) cephalopod endoparasites. They have neither body cavities nor differentiated organs, such as nervous and gastrointestinal systems. Whether dicyemids...

    Jun Aruga, Yuri S Odaka, Akiko Kamiya, Hidetaka Furuya in BMC Evolutionary Biology (2007)