Jennifer Evans | Nov 18, 2008 | 2 min read
Simple communication between a pair of neighboring cells allows tiny marine worms to move toward light using a sensory organ believed to be an ancient precursor of the eye, according to a study out this week in Nature. "It's remarkable that a primitive organism of the ocean, a living marine zooplankton, has the sophisticated ability to move in response to light with a pigment-photoreceptor cell combination," linkurl:Russell Fernald,;http://www.stanford.edu/group/fernaldlab/index.shtml an evolu