[سترك يارب‎]

[Misty Dunn]

"Nagayasu Nakanishi, who was a recent recipient of an NSF CAREER award for his work on the evolution of the nervous system. He is the corresponding author on the study.

"This study is exciting because it not only opened a new field of research into how mechanosensation develops and functions in a sea anemone, which has ample potential for novel and important discoveries (to be reported in the future)," Nakanishi said, "but it also informs us that the building blocks of our sense of hearing have ancient evolutionary roots dating back hundreds of millions of years into the Precambrian."

The paper, titled "Cnidarian hair cell development illuminates an ancient role for the class IV POU transcription fac"
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220401122147.htm#:~:text=Nagayasu%20Nakanishi%2C%20who,POU%20transcription%20factor