A new article expands our understanding of sensory neurons in the tentacles of sea anemones, linking them to kidney disease in humans through a common gene.

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56115-2 Cnidarians, which include jellyfish, corals and sea anemones, are the closest living relatives of animals with bilateral symmetry, such as humans and insects.

Biological sciences researchers from the U of A have led publication of a paper that expands our understanding of sensory neurons in the tentacles of ...

Or maybe nervous systems evolved twice: once in the lineage containing cnidarians and bilaterians ... which are all the animals with mirror image symmetry. All but 4 of the 35 phyla are on ...

Olivooids found from the basal Cambrian Kuanchuanpu Formation can be reasonably considered as cnidarians based on their radial symmetry, external features, and especially the internal anatomies ...

This important study advances our understanding of early Cambrian cnidarian paleoecology and suggests that ... Solid white dots indicate the pentaradial symmetry. Abbreviations: c, calyx; st, stalk; ...

Corals are animals, not plants. They are the quirky, sedentary members of the Cnidaria family: unlike their jellyfish cousins, they build skeletons and don’t move. Healthy coral reefs are the ...