Evolution of Synapses

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This article lists and discusses items about evolution of synapses.

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Emes, R.D., and Grant, S.G.N., "The human postsynaptic density shares conserved elements with proteomes of unicellular eukaryotes and prokaryotes", Frontiers in Neuroscience, Vol. 5, March 2011, Article 44, pp. 1-9: Emes, R.D., Pocklington, A.J., Anderson, C.N.G., Bayes, A., Collins, M.O., Vickers, C.A., Croning, M.D.R., Malik, B.R., Choudhary, J.S., Armstrong, J.D., and Grant, S.G.N., "Evolutionary expansion and anatomical specialization of synapse proteome complexity", Nature Neuroscience, Vol. 11, No. 7, July 2008, pp. 799-806.
 * The Abstract on page 1 describes that structural and signaling proteins of postsynapse arose in eukaryotic lineage and rapidly expanded after metazoans emerged.

Ryan, T.J., and Grant, S.G.N., "The origin and evolution of synapses", Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Vol. 10, October 2009, pp. 701-712.