For more than 30 years, the association between the Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna
scolopes, and the bioluminescent bacterium Vibrio fischeri has been studied as a model …

Natural history collections are invaluable repositories of biological information that provide
an unrivaled record of Earth's biodiversity. Museum genomics—genomics research using …

Cephalopods are known for their large nervous systems, complex behaviors and
morphological innovations. To investigate the genomic underpinnings of these features, we …

In poikilotherms, temperature changes challenge the integration of physiological function.
Within the complex nervous systems of the behaviorally sophisticated coleoid cephalopods …

The coleoid cephalopods have the largest brains, and display the most complex behaviors,
of all invertebrates. The molecular and cellular mechanisms that underlie these remarkable …

Cephalopods are remarkable among invertebrates for their cognitive abilities, adaptive
camouflage, novel structures, and propensity for recoding proteins through RNA editing …

Coleoid cephalopods (octopuses, squids and cuttlefishes) are the only branch of the animal
kingdom outside of vertebrates to have evolved both a large brain and camera-type eyes …

Few animal groups can claim the level of wonder that cephalopods instill in the minds of
researchers and the general public. Much of cephalopod biology, however, remains …

Insects have an amazing variety of colors and patterns. It should be noted that pigments
and/or genes involved in body color formation are markedly different between insects and …

Molluscs are among the most ancient, diverse, and important of all animal taxa. Even so, no
individual mollusc species has emerged as a broadly applied model system in biology. We …