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In a recent #CurrBiol paper, Kuuspalu et al., showed that oral intramuscular nerve cords have a super interesting and unexpected geometry. As in the figure, they extend proximally bypassing two adjacent arms (1).

As far as the functional, computational or behavioral advantage of such a morphology, the authors do not speculate too much. Can’t wait to see more about it!!

1- https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01763-8

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