The recent Invertebrate Wars reminded me of spectacular, but often ignored, group of gastropods. The parasites! This is a group that I have totally geeked out on in the past. In my previous work I ...

Cnidarians lack true mesoderm, in the sense of a third germ layer that arises as a direct result of gastrulation. However, at the molecular level, muscle development in the medusa of the hydrozoan ...

There are two major genetic model systems for cnidarians: the well-known freshwater polyp Hydra (Steele, 2006) and the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis (Holland, 2004; Darling et al., 2005), ...

In modern life sciences, a paradigm shift is becoming increasingly evident: life forms are no longer considered to be self-contained units, but instead highly-complex and functionally-interdependent ...

Ancient Immunoglobulin Genes Help Cnidarians Decide to Fight or Fuse Immunoglobulin genes might have evolved much earlier than previously expected, perhaps even in the common ancestor of Cnidarians ...