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Frontiers in Zoology BioMed Central Research Open Access A new look at the ventral nerve centre of Sagitta: implications for the phylogenetic position of Chaetognatha (arrow worms) and the evolution of the bilaterian nervous system 1 2 Steffen Harzsch* and Carsten HG Müller Address: 1Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, Beutenberg Campus, Hans-Knöll-Str. 8, 07745 Jena, Germany and 2Universität Rostock, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie, Universitätsplatz 2, 18051 Rostock, Germany Email: Steffen Harzsch* - sharzsch@ice.mpg.de; Carsten HG Müller - carsten.mueller@uni-rostock.de * Corresponding author Published: 18 May 2007 Received: 4 February 2007 Accepted: 18 May 2007 Frontiers in Zoology 2007, 4:14 doi:10.1186/1742-9994-4-14 This article is available from: /content/4/1/14 © 2007 Harzsch and Müller; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The Chaetognatha (arrow worms) are a group of marine carnivores whose phylogenetic relationships are still vigorously debated. Molecular studies have as yet failed to come up with a stable hypothesis on their phylogenetic position. In a wide range