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Muscle's dual origins

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Jellyfish move using a set of muscles that look remarkably similar to striated muscles in vertebrates. However, new data show that the two muscle types contain different molecules, implying that they evolved independently. See Letter p.231

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Figure 1: Movers and shakers.

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  1. Andreas Hejnol is at the Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, 5008 Bergen, Norway.

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Hejnol, A. Muscle's dual origins. Nature 487, 181–182 (2012) doi:10.1038/487181a

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