Scientists investigate the evolution of animal developmental mechanisms, show how some of Earth's earliest animals evolved

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/06/230613190828.htm

#seaanemones #genetics #evolution #bodyplan

Turns out that the stingers are harpoons, which is why anemones are ‘sticky’. They don’t stick to #clownfish so the #seaanemones aren’t triggered to close.

Very common in the intertidal habitat but still insufficiently studied worldwide, check out the preprint version of our recent paper: #Biodiversity and distribution of #seaanemones (#Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Actiniaria) in the Northern #Humboldt Current System https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2763418/latest

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Tentacles from giant #seaanemones reveal new genetic insights @oistedu https://bioone.org/journals/zoological-science/volume-39/issue-4/zs210111/Transcriptomes-of-Giant-Sea-Anemones-from-Okinawa-as-a-Tool/10.2108/zs210111.short https://phys.org/news/2022-10-tentacles-giant-sea-anemones-reveal.html

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2022-09-genes-sea-anemones-young.html
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Old #genes keep #seaanemones forever young @CellReports https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2211124722012025 https://phys.org/news/2022-09-genes-sea-anemones-young.html