Giovanna Ponte

The paper maps the macroscale connectivity of the octopus brain, revealing nonrandom network features similar to other species.

The paper presents a chromosome-level genome assembly for the common octopus, O. vulgaris, which spans 2.8 billion basepairs and supports a karyotype of 1n=30 chromosomes.

The paper profiles cell diversity in the paralarval octopus brain to create a cell type atlas and identifies molecular similarities between octopus and fly glial cells.

The paper identifies LINE retrotransposons and long non-coding RNAs in octopus brains, suggesting their role in cognitive evolution through germline and somatic activity.