Wendy2d ago
Five hundred million years ago, something that was not yet an animal became one. This week, in a lab in Jena, somebody got close to watching it happen.

They found the master switch — the cells that tell a body what to build — inside a comb jelly, one of the oldest branches on the animal tree. Then they moved those cells into a sea anemone from a wholly different phylum, and the anemone grew a whole second working mouth.

The body remembers things older than every empire that ever called us unnatural.
https://twp.ai/4hrYv3

#MarineBiology #Science #Evolution #CombJelly #Ctenophore #OceanLife #DevelopmentalBiology #Wonder #STEM #Nature #Photography #SciComm
Show threadwendythedruid2d ago

Five hundred million years ago, something that wasn't yet an animal became one. Nobody saw it. This week, in a lab in Jena, somebody got as close to watching it as we may ever get. 🧵 https://twp.ai/4hrZsx

#Science #Evolution #MarineBiology #CombJelly #Ctenophore #DevelopmentalBiology #OceanLife #STEM #SciComm #Wonder #Nature #Biology

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Iñaki Ruiz-TrilloMay 27
1/5 A fascinating new #ctenophore preprint 🧵 Ferraioli et al. uncover a “ladder-like” neural architecture in the living comb jelly Mnemiopsis and connect it to preserved neuroanatomical traces in Cambrian fossils. But the real importance isn’t the anatomy. It’s what the anatomy implies.

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Pawel BurkhardtApr 27
#Ctenophore sampling with the lab on a perfect day around #sunnybergen on the R/V Brattström. Always one of the biggest highlights of the year 🤩. @[email protected] @[email protected]
Show threadAquaClaireMar 17
@xenomatt.bsky.social Beautiful photo! So hard to capture the delicate shapes and iridescence. So fragile too. I have tried to draw / paint them, with little success...
#ctenophore #SeaLife
Show threadAlbert CardonaFeb 23

@jekely

Now out as a version of record:

"Neural connectome of the ctenophore statocyst", Jokura et sl. 2026 (Jékely lab)

https://elifesciences.org/articles/108420#content

#ctenophore #connectomics #neuroscience

Neural connectome of the ctenophore statocyst

Volume EM and connectome reconstruction of the apical organ of a ctenophore combined with high-speed imaging reveals a neuronal coordination of balancer cilia in the gravisensory organ.

eLife
Ele Willoughby, PhDOct 4, 2025

A throwback for Ctenophore Day! If you ever wondered how to pronounce Ctenophore, today is October 4, the 10th month, fourth day and it sounds like ten oh four. They are a phylum of marine invertebrates, like this comb jelly which look a bit like jellyfish, but instead of stinging tentacles they have comb-like cilia (hairs). 🧵1/2

#ctenophore #CtenophoreDay #CtenophoreDay2025 #linocut #printmaking #sciart #multimedia #invertebrates

Gaspar JekelySep 8, 2025

We have received the reviews for our "Neural #Connectome of the Ctenophore Statocyst" paper from @eLife

"This fundamental work significantly advances our understanding of gravity sensing and orientation behavior in the ctenophore, an animal of major importance in understanding the evolution of nervous systems. Through comprehensive reconstruction with volumetric electron microscopy, and time-lapse imaging of cilia motion ... []"

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.26.661250v2
#ctenophore #neuroscience

Gaspar JekelyJun 30, 2025
In our new preprint we describe the synaptic #connectome of the nerve net in the ctenophore gravisensory organ. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.26.661250v1 #biology #neuroscience #ctenophore #vEM
DORIS_FFESSM_BioSubaquatiqueJan 12, 2025

Publication de la fiche #DORIS sur un #Cténophore polaire et subpolaire des hémisphères nord et sud.
Pour nous, francophones, il est présent à #SaintPierre et #Miquelonn ainsi que dans le #StLaurent. C'est
la groseille de mer plate.

NICOLETTI Solène, FEY Laurent. in #DORIS, 11/01/2025 :
Mertensia ovum (Fabricius, 1780), https://doris.ffessm.fr/ref/specie/4503

#Biodiversite #Québec #Cténaire #Tentaculata #Ctenophora #biodiversity #tentilles

Mertensia ovum | DORIS

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