Proposed sucker evolution (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

Proposed sucker evolution

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The researchers propose that different sets of genes were reused in different parts of the ancestral mollusk foot as cephalopod arms and suckers evolved from simple shapes to complex functional ones. ©2026 Kimbara et al. CC-BY-ND

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