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      The Current State of Cephalopod Science and Perspectives on the Most Critical Challenges Ahead From Three Early-Career Researchers

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          Here, three researchers who have recently embarked on careers in cephalopod biology discuss the current state of the field and offer their hopes for the future. Seven major topics are explored: genetics, aquaculture, climate change, welfare, behavior, cognition, and neurobiology. Recent developments in each of these fields are reviewed and the potential of emerging technologies to address specific gaps in knowledge about cephalopods are discussed. Throughout, the authors highlight specific challenges that merit particular focus in the near-term. This review and prospectus is also intended to suggest some concrete near-term goals to cephalopod researchers and inspire those working outside the field to consider the revelatory potential of these remarkable creatures.

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              Intervening sequences of regularly spaced prokaryotic repeats derive from foreign genetic elements.

              Prokaryotes contain short DN repeats known as CRISPR, recognizable by the regular spacing existing between the recurring units. They represent the most widely distributed family of repeats among prokaryotic genomes suggesting a biological function. The origin of the intervening sequences, at present unknown, could provide clues about their biological activities. Here we show that CRISPR spacers derive from preexisting sequences, either chromosomal or within transmissible genetic elements such as bacteriophages and conjugative plasmids. Remarkably, these extrachromosomal elements fail to infect the specific spacer-carrier strain, implying a relationship between CRISPR and immunity against targeted DNA. Bacteriophages and conjugative plasmids are involved in prokaryotic population control, evolution, and pathogenicity. All these biological traits could be influenced by the presence of specific spacers. CRISPR loci can be visualized as mosaics of a repeated unit, separated by sequences at some time present elsewhere in the cell.
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                Front Physiol
                Front Physiol
                Front. Physiol.
                Frontiers in Physiology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-042X
                06 June 2018
                2018
                : 9
                : 700
                Affiliations
                [1] 1Normandie Univ., UNICAEN, Rennes 1 Univ., UR1, CNRS, UMR 6552 ETHOS , Caen, France
                [2] 2Association for Cephalopod Research – CephRes , Naples, Italy
                [3] 3Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie, Università degli Studi del Sannio , Benevento, Italy
                [4] 4Section for Evolutionary Genomics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen , Copenhagen, Denmark
                Author notes

                Edited by: Lindy Holden-Dye, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

                Reviewed by: Ana Turchetti-Maia, Tel Aviv University, Israel; Peter John Shand Smith, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

                *Correspondence: Caitlin E. O’Brien, c_obrien@ 123456cephalopodresearch.org

                This article was submitted to Invertebrate Physiology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Physiology

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                10.3389/fphys.2018.00700
                6014164
                dd2a3b55-d7db-428f-af2b-2fe835f08514
                Copyright © 2018 O’Brien, Roumbedakis and Winkelmann.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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                : 02 March 2018
                : 18 May 2018
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                Figures: 2, Tables: 1, Equations: 0, References: 253, Pages: 21, Words: 0
                Categories
                Physiology
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                Anatomy & Physiology
                aquaculture,behavior,cephalopod,cognition,climate change,genetics,neurobiology,welfare
                Anatomy & Physiology
                aquaculture, behavior, cephalopod, cognition, climate change, genetics, neurobiology, welfare

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