Scientists found identical "jumping genes" in an octopus and the person

Research shows that same "jumping genes" are active both in a brain of the person, and in a brain of an ordinary octopus (Octopus vulgaris) and the Californian octopus (Octopus bimaculoides), reports Italian Nauchny higher education institution to SISSA.

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