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- Extensive gene loss parallels kidney aglomerulism in SyngnathidaePublication . Pinto, Bernardo; Machado, André M.; Cordeiro, J. Miguel; Kolbadinezhad, Salman Malakpour; Fonseca, Elza; Andrade, Jose; Palma, Jorge; Ruivo, Raquel; Monteiro, Nuno; Wilson, Jonathan M.; Castro, L. Filipe C.The eccentric seahorses, seadragons, pipehorses and pipefishes (Syngnathidae) have an aglomerular kidney1. Here, we show that nephron genes2 conserved in Bilateria are secondarily eroded/deleted in Syngnathidae genomes. A transcriptome enrichment analysis suggests the predominance of excretion processes in the Syngnathidae kidney. In a lineage where crypsis and idleness are tightly associated, we propose that aglomerulism evolved as an energy-saving strategy.