Andre Castro

2 months ago | biorxiv.org | Andre Castro |André Castro |Albert Cardona

AbstractThe nervous system scales with animal size while preserving function, yet the principles underlying this stability remain unclear. Here, we analyse the ultrastructure and connectivity of thousands of neuronal cells across species, including fly, zebrafish, mouse, and human, and found a conserved feature that stabilises neuronal responses across scales: an average of one synapse per micrometre of dendritic cable.