Coral reefs depend on an intracellular symbiosis between cnidarian hosts and photosynthetic dinoflagellates that is disrupted by ocean warming, causing coral bleaching. Yet how these responses are dis...

Nature - A unicellular relative links aggregative multicellularity to animal origins

Mirror-mediated localization of hidden objects is well documented in vertebrates1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 but has never been demonstrated in inverteb…

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Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and rare variant association studies (RVAS) from population biobanks provide valuable resources for gene discovery in complex human traits. We presen...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them for insights into how intelligence evolved.