The elusive 'vampire squid from hell' has just yielded the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced, a monster clocking in at more than 11 billion base pairs – more than twice as large as the biggest ...
According to a new study in iScience, researchers have now sequenced the largest cephalopod genome in history. Generating the genome of the vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis sp.) and comparing it to the ...
Cephalopods comprise one of the most morphologically and ecologically diverse classes of mollusks, tracing their origins to the Late Cambrian. Extant lineages fall into two principal groups: ...