With jellies on the rise and overlapping with more and more people, it is good to know how they got their sting. According to some new research, it seems ancestor jellies might have gotten their defense capabilities from a bacterium via horizontal gene transfer. Read more at Nature.
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Surely this would have been a good intro to showcase your jelly aquarium!
It's coming! (Just can't find my camera cord at the moment...)
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