Identification of LINE retrotransposons and long non-coding RNAs expressed in the octopus brain
Giuseppe Petrosino, Giovanna Ponte, Massimiliano Volpe, Ilaria Zarrella, Federico Ansaloni, Concetta Langella, Giulia Di Cristina, Sara Finaurini, Monia Teresa Russo, Swaraj Basu, Francesco Musacchia, Filomena Ristoratore, Dinko Pavlinić, Vladimı́r Beneš, Maria Immacolata Ferrante, , Remo Sanges
The paper identifies LINE retrotransposons and long non-coding RNAs in octopus brains, suggesting their role in cognitive evolution through germline and somatic activity.
BMC Biology · May 17, 2022Peer-reviewedGenomics