We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

Sea anemones may look alien, but scientists just found out they're hiding an ancient body 'blueprint' – one that most animals ...

Pycnogonum litorale, adult male feeding on a sea anemone. C: Georg Brenneis The first high-quality pycnogonid genome provides ...

The anemone, named Discoactis tritentaculata, or “umi-no-Fujisan,” which translates to “Mount Fuji of the ocean” in Japanese, ...

Sea anemones use BMP shuttling, a molecular mechanism also found in bilaterian animals, to establish their back-to-belly axis. This indicates that BMP shuttling predates the evolutionary split ...

To test whether sea anemones use Chordin as a local inhibitor or as a shuttle, the researchers first blocked Chordin production in the embryos of the model sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. In ...

Scientists have long sought to understand why sea spiders keep some of their most important organs in their legs.

When a sea anemone's foot was injured, Cheung observed not only cell division at the wound site but also unexpected cell division at the opposite end of the body—the mouth area.

So while the sea anemone's genome, gene repertoire, and gene regulation on the DNA level is surprisingly similar to vertebrates, its post-transcriptional regulation is undeniably plant-like -- and ...

The study, led by biologists at Harvard University, found that the slugs build sac-like structures known as kleptosomes out of their own cells in which the chloroplasts are stashed. The kleptosomes ...