A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago, the University of Washington, and the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) shows that the optic gland in maternal octopuses undergoes a massive shift in cholesterol metabolism, resulting in dramatic changes in the steroid hormones produced.
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New research finds remarkable similarities in steroid hormone biology across cephalopods, mice, and humans that can have dire consequences when disrupted. For all their uncanny intelligence and seemingly supernatural abilities to change color and.
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