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

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

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

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 #CtenophoreDay2024 #linocut #printmaking #sciart #multimedia #invertebrates #MastoArt