Sea slug (<i>Aplysia californica</i>) (IMAGE)

Case Western Reserve University

Sea slug (<i>Aplysia californica</i>)

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The researchers are studying the shapeless and primitive sea slug (Aplysia californica) because it has only about 20,000 neurons--and only a few hundred controlling its tongue-like organ known as a grasper.

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Mike Scott/Case Western Reserve University

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