[Biology & Species] When it's too cold, these octopuses just rewire their brains - National Geographic

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From National Geographic:

Octopuses and other cephalopods are among the most intelligent animals that are not vertebrates, capable of executing complex tasks like solving ...

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From NewScientist:

When the temperature drops, octopuses recode their RNA in thousands of places to alter the proteins made in their nerve cells.

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From Interesting Engineering:

The study experiment. For this study, the team studied the California two-spot octopuses (Octopus bimaculoides) to better understand the link between ...

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From Science News:

Cephalopods — the group of (mostly) ultrasmart mollusks that include squid and octopuses — don't have that luxury. Instead, some octopuses and squid ...

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From PopSci:

Two-spot octopuses adapt to seasonal shifts in temperature by producing different neural proteins. They accomplish this by editing their RNA.

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From Earth:

This rewiring of genetic information, the researchers believe, could be a widespread strategy among octopuses and squid.

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From Phys.org:

In a study appearing in Cell on June 8, Rosenthal and colleagues document an enormous uptick in RNA editing when octopus, squid and cuttlefish, known ...

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From Genome Web:

Researchers from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and elsewhere had six California two-spot octopuses (Octopus bimaculoides) — ...

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From Courthouse News:

New research finds that the cephalopods can recode their RNA in response to ... by the study is unique to octopuses, squid and cuttlefish.

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From Wandsworth Guardian:

For the study, scientists in the US analysed the behaviour of the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides). Unlike humans, octopuses are not ...

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From LiveScience:

Octopuses edit their RNA to adapt to fluctuating temperatures, from the warm waters of summer to chilly ocean temperatures in winter.

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From USCD.edu:

Cephalopods are a large family of marine animals that includes octopuses, cuttlefish and squid. They live in every ocean, from warm, ...

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From Independent:

Scientists analysed the behaviour of the California two-spot octopus (Tom Kleindinst/Marine Biological Laboratory) ...

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From Gen Eng News:

The current study documents an enormous uptick in RNA editing when octopus, squid and cuttlefish, known as coleoid cephalopods, acclimate to cold ...

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From Scientific American:

Octopuses are among the smartest animals on the planet—and some of the strangest. They have about the same number of neurons as dogs, ...

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