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A cell type atlas of the lamprey brain

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A cell atlas of the lamprey brain reveals the evolutionary origin of specialized vertebrate glia and neuron types

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Fig. 1: Model suggested by Lamanna et al. for the evolution of oligodendrocytes, the glial cells that wrap axons in myelin.

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