This work identifies cnidarian neuropeptides and pairs them to their GPCR, then shows that neuropeptide signaling systems have evolved and diversified independently in cnidarians and bilaterians.

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1 Section for Cell and Neurobiology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 2 Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Figure 1 ...

The mitochondrial DNA of the tube anemone, or Ceriantharia, is a real head scratcher, from its unexpected arrangement to its previously unimagined magnitude. Researchers, including a team from The ...

The mitochondrial DNA of the tube anemone, or Ceriantharia, is a real head scratcher, from its unexpected arrangement to its previously unimagined magnitude. The tube-dwelling anemone is an ...

Continuing its trend as one of the top destinations for out-of-this-world fossil finds, China is yielding yet another piece to the evolutionary jigsaw puzzle. In a recent PLoS One article, Han and ...