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Null\u2010model comparisons further supported this finding, demonstrating that these patterns cannot arise from preserving symmetry alone: e.g., for connectivity similarity, randomizing the asymmetric edges while holding the symmetric ones reduced bilateral similarity, suggesting that bilateral asymmetry is itself what enables paired neurons to share neighbours and converge on similar network roles. Redundancy was not uniform across the nervous system: in the hermaphrodite it was more pronounced among interneurons than among sensory neurons across all three measures, while in the male this gradient was only significant for path compensation. Together, these results show that bilateral redundancy is a systematic multiscale principle of the\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">\n                      <jats:italic>C. elegans<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:styled-content>\n                    connectome, one that cannot be explained by bilateral symmetry alone.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/ejn.70629","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,21]],"date-time":"2026-07-21T03:29:47Z","timestamp":1784604587000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Bilateral Neuron Pairs Share Redundant Network Roles Despite Incomplete Connection Symmetry in\n                    <scp>\n                      <i>Caenorhabditis elegans<\/i>\n                    <\/scp>"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"64","author":[{"given":"Pyeong Soo","family":"Kim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Brain &amp; Cognitive Sciences, College of Life Science and Bioengineering Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)  Daejeon Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0003-6493-8575","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Youngjo","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, College of Engineering Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)  Daejeon Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jerald D.","family":"Kralik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Brain &amp; Cognitive Sciences, College of Life Science and Bioengineering Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)  Daejeon Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0827-2735","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jaeseung","family":"Jeong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Brain &amp; Cognitive Sciences, College of Life Science and Bioengineering Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)  Daejeon Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_12_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1103\/RevModPhys.74.47"},{"key":"e_1_2_12_3_1","volume-title":"Individual Neurons","author":"Altun Z.","year":"2015"},{"key":"e_1_2_12_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1098\/rstb.2005.1790"},{"key":"e_1_2_12_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pcbi.1005021"},{"key":"e_1_2_12_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/1749-8104-2-24"},{"key":"e_1_2_12_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.isci.2024.110713"},{"key":"e_1_2_12_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/s41586-021-03284-x"},{"key":"e_1_2_12_9_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/s41586-019-1352-7"},{"key":"e_1_2_12_10_1","first-page":"359","volume-title":"Proceedings of the 27th Australasian conference on Computer science","author":"Dekker A. 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