Study of tentacle-formation in a sea anemone shows how
epithelial cells form elongated structures and puts the spotlight on a new
model organism
There’s a new actor on the embryology stage: the starlet sea
anemone Nematostella vectensis. Its career is being launched in part by Stowers
Institute for Medical Research Associate Investigator Matt Gibson, Ph.D., who
is giving it equal billing with what has been his laboratory’s leading player,
the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.