Mastodawn

#Scientists May Have Found the Blueprint of the Human Body at the Bottom of the Ocean
We know that some animals are #bilaterian—meaning they display #bilateralsymmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely so black-and-white.
A study found that the sea anemone, a member of the #Cnidarian phylum, uses bilaterian-like techniques to form its body.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a70021751/sea-anemone-bilaterian-ocean/

Scientists May Have Found the Blueprint of the Human Body at the Bottom of the Ocean

Scientists discovered that the brainless sea anemone build their bodies with a technique common in bilaterians... which is what humans are.

Popular Mechanics

Gina Aug 8, 2025

By-the-wind Sailor (Velella velella) drifts across the ocean using only its sail for movement. Guided by the wind, these jellyfish relatives are often stranded in large numbers on beaches around the world.

#cnidarian #oceanlife #nature #wildlife #california

Phil Feb 2, 2025

Two of thousands of Velella, washed up on the beach at Alexandra Headland, Queensland, Australia.

#velella #queensland #australia #alexandraheadland #velellavelella #beach #travel #cnidarian

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RAPIDPUNCHES Jan 23, 2025

Friends!! #ocean #cephalopod #cnidarian

SICB journals(ICB & IOB)Jul 22, 2024

ICB

Congrats !
& (@)Emily_VanBuren et al's paper now
in advanced
Structural and #Evolutionary Relationships of Melanin Cascade Proteins in #Cnidarian Innate Immunity
Van Buren,Ponce, Beavers, Stokes, Cornellio, Emery,(@)LauraDMydlarz (image from)

https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae115

#science #organisms

Structural and Evolutionary Relationships of Melanin Cascade Proteins in Cnidarian Innate Immunity

Abstract. Melanin is an essential product that plays an important role in innate immunity in a variety of organisms across the animal kingdom. Melanin synt

OUP Academic

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Gaspar Jekely May 13, 2024

The version of record of our #Nematostella #GPCR #neuropeptide paper has now been published
https://elifesciences.org/articles/90674#content

For #cnidarian #neuroscience there are lots of new deorphanised receptors described in the paper. We also identified orthologs across cnidarian species, including corals, #Exaiptasia etc. so the resource is not limited to Nematostella.

Large-scale deorphanization of Nematostella vectensis neuropeptide G protein-coupled receptors supports the independent expansion of bilaterian and cnidarian peptidergic systems

The identification of 31 neuropeptide GPCRs in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis provides a rich resource to study peptidergic signaling in cnidarians and suggests that cnidarian and bilaterian peptidergic systems diversified independent from each other from a few ancestral systems.

eLife