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Sea Anemone Genome Surprises

Caption: Complex Beginnings: The slit-shaped mouth of the Nematostella breaks the radical symmetry that is characteristic of cindarians. This morphological evidence of complexity correlates with the finding that the sea anemone genome is complex, much like our own genome. This image relates to an article that appeared in the July 6, 2007 issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Nicholas Putnam and colleagues at Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, CA, was titled "Sea Anemone Genome Reveals Ancestral Eumetazoan Gene Repertoire and Genomic Organization."

Credit: Image courtesy of Image courtesy of Mansi Srivastava and Russel Howson; CIG, University of California, Berkeley

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