When water temperatures change, the molecular motors of cephalopods do too
Thursday, June 8, 2023 - 10:13
in Biology & Nature
Cephalopods are a large family of marine animals that includes octopuses, cuttlefish and squid. They live in every ocean, from warm, shallow tropical waters to near-freezing, abyssal depths. More remarkably, report two scientists at University of California San Diego in a new study, at least some cephalopods possess the ability to recode protein motors within cells to adapt to different water temperatures.