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How organisms rapidly respond to a challenge: For an octopus, that might be a sudden plunge in water temperature, which slows enzyme activity.
In an exciting discovery researchers found that these marine marvels can 'recode' their neurons in response to temperature changes.
This is a seriously impressive biological ability.
The idea the environment can influence that genetic information, as we’ve shown in cephalopods, is a new concept.
The California two-spot octopus can edit the RNA in its brain to produce different proteins as ocean temperatures fluctuate, a new study finds.