Clocking in at over 11 billion base pairs, the vampire squid genome is the largest ever sequenced in any cephalopod. It’s significantly larger than those of squids like Doryteuthis pealeii (4.4 Gb) ...

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Scientists recently discovered a new member of Tripedaliidae (a family of box jellyfish) living in brackish ponds near Hong Kong. Only 1.5 centimeters in length on average, these new jellyfish have 24 ...

Cephalopod evolution has long had a missing chapter in its story: how did squid-like ancestors give rise to today's octopuses? The answer, it turns out, was floating in the deep sea all along. With ...

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Scientists have sequenced the genome of the elusive “vampire squid from hell” for the first time, providing insights into the origin of cephalopods like octopuses. It’s the largest cephalopod genome ...

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Researchers from the University of Vienna (Austria), National Institute of Technology—Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the largest cephalopod genome sequenced to ...

In a study now published in iScience, researchers from the University of Vienna (Austria), National Institute of Technology - Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the ...

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