#cnidarians — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cnidarians, aggregated by home.social.
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Meet the #Neuston, the Diverse Organisms Living at the #Ocean’s Surface https://www.the-scientist.com/slideshow-meet-the-neuston-the-diverse-organisms-living-at-the-ocean-s-surface-70851
The Constellation of #Creatures Inhabiting the Ocean Surface https://www.the-scientist.com/the-constellation-of-creatures-inhabiting-the-ocean-surface-70844
"The ocean’s surface harbors an #ecosystem of colorful, understudied life, ranging from #protists and #cnidarians to #insects."
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Oh I love this so much. Only #scientists will properly investigate the #biodiversity of #emojis ❤️
👉 https://www.cell.com/iscience/pdf/S2589-0042(23)02646-9.pdf
tl;dr: Vertebrates are significantly overrepresented. Arthropods, plants, fungi, and microorganisms are underrepresented. Diversity improved since the recent addition of #cnidarians and #annelids...
#ScienceMastodon #Wisskomm #SciComm #biology -
The 31 new deorphanized #neuropeptide #GPCRs from #Nematostella and the #phylogenetic trees also allowed us to predict the ligand for many receptors across #cnidarians. We hope that cnidarian researchers will functionally characterising these e.g. by #CRISPR, as the Houliston lab has done for the MIH receptor.
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000614
#evolution #neuroscience