A single #peptide helps #starfish get rid of a #limb when attacked.
#predation #autotomy #ArSK_CCK1 #Asterias_rubens
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/how-starfish-ditch-limbs-when-attacked/
Guillotines might. Missing from the social media discussion of these is that this only happened to young sea slugs. Older ones just died after some days, and did not regenerate their bodies.
So the middle-aged sea slug oligarch/monarch, sitting all green on xyr emerald seaweed throne, is not as safe from the French Revolution as xe might think.
I suppose that now you have an excuse to use '#kleptoplasty' and '#autotomy' in a story. (-:
A single #peptide helps #starfish get rid of a #limb when attacked.
#predation #autotomy #ArSK_CCK1 #Asterias_rubens
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/how-starfish-ditch-limbs-when-attacked/
29-Aug-2024
Scientists discover how #starfish get ‘legless’
A neurohormone that makes their arms fall off is identified
I just learned that #autotomy is the ability to shed a limb - don't try this at home!
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have made a groundbreaking discovery about how starfish manage to survive predatory attacks by shedding their own limbs. The team has identified a neurohormone responsible for triggering this remarkable feat of self-preservation.
This #SeaSlug cut off its own head—and lived to tell the tale
Ability may have evolved as a way to get rid of #parasites
https://www.science.org/content/article/sea-slug-cut-its-own-head-and-lived-tell-tale