At the end of the semester in the advanced invertebrate zoology course I took, my rather dry, boring professor made the only joke I remember him ever uttering. We had just finished the phylum ...

Jellyfish are cnidarians, a phylum of soft-bodied invertebrates. Cnidaria also includes corals, hydras, and anemones, which all have stinging tentacles. Unlike bilaterians such as salamanders (and ...

and invertebrates (cnidarians, echinoderms, cephalochordates and hemichordates). One of the mainstays of the article is the work carried out to sequence the amphioxus genome (Nature, 2008 ...

Spanning a large range of taxa from insects, molluscs, and crustaceans to annelids, cnidarians, and beyond, invertebrates make up the vast majority of Earth's biodiversity - yet their genomes ...