Sea anemone genome provides new view of our multi-celled ancestors

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view into the mouth of the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. The anemone only a few inches long and endowed with between 16 and 20 tentacles lives in the mud of brackish estuaries and marshes. It is becoming a popular laboratory subject fo ...
view into the mouth of the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis. The anemone, only a few inches long and endowed with between 16 and 20 tentacles, lives in the mud of brackish estuaries and marshes. It is becoming a popular laboratory subject for studies of development, evolution, genomics, reproductive biology and ecology. (Nicholas Putnam/UC Berkeley photo)

The first analysis of the genome of the sea anemone shows it to be nearly as complex as the human genome, providing major insights into the common ancestor of not only humans and sea anemones, but of nearly all multi-celled animals.


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