Octopus' brain and human brain share the same 'jumping genes'

A paper published in BMC Biology and coordinated by Remo Sanges from SISSA of Trieste and by Graziano Fiorito from Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn of Naples shows that the same 'jumping genes' are active both in the human brain and in the brain of two species of octopus.

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