Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology

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Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works. But over the past two decades, evidence has emerged that ctenophores were earlier. Human embryos use the same signaling pathways that Hejnol and his colleagues found in ctenophores.

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