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Fishes do not move their heads, and in animals with a real neck the spinal nerves also contribute to the control of head movements. With this title, however, we want to emphasize the functional change that occurred in the accessory nerve area during phylogenesis. The classification of this nerve, its nucleus of origin, and the innervated muscle group is no less ambiguous than the glossopharyngeal-vagal complex. The developmental history of the accessory nerve and its muscles is excellently summarized by Krammer et al. (1987).
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Székely, G., Matesz, C. (1993). The Control of Head Movements: The Accessory Nerve Nucleus. In: The Efferent System of Cranial Nerve Nuclei: A Comparative Neuromorphological Study. Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology, vol 128. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77938-1_9
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