Octopuses Might Have The Oldest Sex Chromosomes in The Animal Kingdom
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It had to start somewhere.
It had to start somewhere.
Les premiers chromosomes sexuels connus ont été découverts chez une espèce de pieuvre originaire de l'océan Pacifique. Ces…
Genomics workflows typically map reads onto a reference genome as the foundation for downstream analyses. However, this poses…
Ruth Styfhals and Dr. Eve Seuntjens at the KU Leuven, Belgium, recently published a cell type atlas of a developing octopus…
A Cephalopods nervous system is about as weird as the creatures’ external features. The evolutionary pathway that led to this…
Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish – even to scientists who study them – are wonderfully weird creatures. Known as the soft-bodied…
“Sentience” is a word with seriously heavy connotations that also tend to hold different meaning to different people and under…
Le calmar géant, sujet de nombreux récits théâtralisés, est en fait aussi mystérieux que gros. Rarement observé, il n'a jamais ét…
The huge squid has long been a self-discipline of terror lore. In this usual illustration from Jules Verne’s ‘20,000 Leagues…
One the most intriguing and mysterious creatures on the planet—the giant squid—has finally had its genome fully sequenced. But…
WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- How did the monstrous giant squid - reaching school-bus size, with eyes as big as dinner plates and…
According to a study from NY times, Coleoid cephalopods are the most intelligent invertebrates for their behavioral complexity…
Last week I was whining about gaps in…
One day in a lab, scientists gave MDMA to four octopuses. Do not try this at home. After putting the eight-legged sea…
Способность МДМА стимулировать просоциальное поведение у осьминогов указала на древность механизмов действия серотонина.
A neuroscientist and a marine biologist got together and decided to give octopuses MDMA. It sounds like a joke, but it really…
OutdoorHub Video: New Theory Suggests Octopus DNA Comes From…
Are octopuses aliens from outer space that were brought to Earth by meteors? Josh Gabbatiss Science…
It's an interesting idea, but it's probably not true. Calm down.
Os polvos são criaturas tão misteriosas e extraordinárias que só podem ter vindo do espaço. É a conclusão de uma pesquisa que…
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that the number of suspected cholera cases in war-battered Yemen this year…
It isn’t surprising that the intelligent alien life forms that communicate with Amy Adams’ linguistics professor character…
What ocean creature has three hearts, a good memory, and can squeeze through a hole the size of its eye? Yep, it’s Cephalopod…
The octopus genome and the evolution of cephalopod neural and morphological novelties : Nature : …
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Among the things we've learned from sequencing these genomes: While humans have but two sex chromosomes (x or y), the platypus…
I saw it coming. The octopus genome was sequenced, and one scientist gushed about the differences between cephalopods and…
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The California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) genome was recently sequenced and analyzed (good job science!). In…
The Middle East region could possibly be the least water-secure…
Untangling the Octopus GenomeThe octopus genome sequence provides new clues to this animal’s distinctive features and abilities…
Sequenziato per la prima volta il genoma di una specie di Octopus, allo scopo di indagare nelle caratteristiche del più…
These days, new genomes of different types of organisms are being sequenced and published on a regular basis. When some new…
Cephalopods, from the Latin for "head-foot," are among the strangest creatures in the ocean. Though classified in phylum…
An unusually high number of transposons could potentially be behind the octopus' unique nervous system and camouflage abilities.
Plants and…
Scientists for the first time were able to unlock octopus genome sequence that would reveal how the eight-legged creature…
Scientists have mapped an octopus’s complete genome for the first time, potentially unraveling the mystery of its high…
The cephalopod’s genome reveals how the creatures evolved intelligence to rival the brightest vertebrates.
a, Schematic of Octopus bimaculoides anatomy, highlighting the tissues sampled for transcriptome analysis: viscera (heart…
The mystery of the octopus genome has finally been solved, and this will allow researchers to answer some intriguing questions…
Octopuses are like aliens and there are few creatures weirder than these eight legged critters. They survive freezing waters…
With its eight prehensile arms lined with suckers, camera-like eyes, elaborate repertoire of camouflage tricks and spooky…
加州两斑章鱼 (Octopus bimaculoides)表现出头足类动物的几个形态创新,其中包括强大的&
Plants and…
The octopus is one of Earth's most striking creatures, able to exert fine control over a complex and flexible body all while…
The California Two-Spot Octopus, the first octopus genome to be sequenced. Credit: Judit Pungor/Nature. We here at Science Life…