A new study is planned to analyse and map out the genetics of Jellyfish eyes, ‘providing a window on how evolution works at genetic, cellular and morphologic levels.’
It has aimed to reconstruct a genetic evolutionary tree, through incorporating genome data and evolutionary reconstructions.
A deep-dive into the gene expression in single cells will determine similarities and differences in genetic pathways of convergent eyes and what’s shared among species and what’s changed, determining whether jellyfish use the same or different aspects of their genetic toolkit to build eyes every single time that they have evolved, according to the University of Kansas.
A team of researchers, made up of professors from the Universities of Kansas, Texas and California, Santa Barbara, received a National Science Foundation grant of almost £377,000 to carry out their work.
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