The draft genome of the greater argonaut or paper nautilus, Argonauta argo, revealed several surprises. (IMAGE)

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The draft genome of the greater argonaut or paper nautilus, Argonauta argo, revealed several surprises.

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Shown are photographs of A. argo and its paper-thin eggcase; a map of the location off Oki Island, Japan, where the sequenced specimen was caught; the nearly intact Hox gene cluster, which was previously thought to be fragmented in all octopuses; and a depiction of the A. argo LamininG3 protein, which is homologous to a protein in the nautilus shell but does not appear to be present in the eggcase of A. argo.

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Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 11, November 2022, evac156, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evac156

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