Efforts to understand nervous system structure and function have received new impetus from the federal Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. Comparative analyses can contribute to this effort by leading to the discovery of general principles of neural circuit design, information processing, and gene-structure-function relationships that are not apparent from studies on single species.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24596113

Georg F. Striedter, T. Grant Belgard, Chun-Chun Chen, Fred P. Davis, Barbara L. Finlay, Onur Güntürkün, Melina E. Hale, Julie A. Harris, Erin E. Hecht, Patrick R. Hof, Hans A. Hofmann, Linda Z. Holland, Andrew N. Iwaniuk, Erich D. Jarvis, Harvey J. Karten

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