Sea anemone study shows how animals stay ‘in shape’
Scientists have shown how regenerating sea anemones restore their shape following a major injury, uncovering novel cellular and molecular mechanisms.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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Does exercise drive development? In the sea anemone, the way you move matters.
The latest research from EMBL’s Ikmi group employs interdisciplinary approaches to show how sea anemone ‘exercise’ changes their developing size and shape, uncovering an intimate relationship between behaviour and body development
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Starlet sea anemone
EMBL PhD student Anniek Stokkermans captured this side view of a Nematostella vectensis larva during this transition, using instrumentation in the Advanced Light Microscopy Facility at EMBL Heidelberg.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Living laboratories
Under the innovative Planetary Biology research theme, EMBL scientists aim to understand life in the context of its environment.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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A multifunctional mouth
This image of a young Nematostella vectensis polyp shows two of the characteristic tentacles as well as the gaping mouth of the animal.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Crazy arms
Sea anemones are amazing creatures. Despite their plant-like appearance and their tendency to remain fixed in one spot, they are actually animals.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Eat more to grow more arms…if you’re a sea anemone
An international group of researchers, led by scientists from EMBL Heidelberg, have discovered that the number of tentacle arms a sea anemone grows depends on the amount of food it eats.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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