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New model jellyfish?

Nature Reviews Neuroscience volume 23, page 69 (2022)Cite this article

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The jellyfish Clytia hemisphaerica is shown to be a genetically tractable organism that has anatomically distinct subassemblies of neurons that regulate behaviour and can be manipulated experimentally — for example, cell-type-specific conditional ablation and whole-organism calcium imaging. The authors identify a subnetwork of peptidergic neurons that are spatially and functionally organized to regulate the transfer of food from the tentacles to the mouth without involvement of a brain. They suggest that this species has potential for the systems-level study of neural function, behaviour and evolution.

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Lewis, S. New model jellyfish?. Nat Rev Neurosci 23, 69 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-021-00551-8

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