Lessons on neurodegeneration and aging from the Lagoon of Venice: the marine invertebrate
Botryllus schlosseri

Brain communications
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Tommaso Bocci, Chiara Anselmi, Federico La Torre, Emanuela De Lisa, Giacomo Sabbadin, Matteo Guidetti, Natale Maiorana, Alberto Priori, Lucia Manni
In this work, the authors proposed a novel and interesting animal model for studying human neurodegenerative diseases, Botryllus schlosseri, a small invertebrate inhabiting temperate seas worldwide, which shares remarkable similarities with mammals in the expression of genes involved in pathological aging.