This is consistent with recent studies that the ‘vertebrate’
telomere motif is present in basal metazoan groups including Cnidaria
(Traut et al., 2007). The jellyfish Aurelia aurita (Traut et al., 2007) and
four species of corals (Sinclair et al., 2007) have been shown to possess
the (TTAGGG)n sequence.