Frontiers in Marine ScienceWhile gelatinous zooplankton (GZ) constitute a vital component of the marine food web, understanding their biology and ecology has been hindered because traditional collection methods often destroy their fragile bodies.
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Dendrogramma, new genus, with two new non-bilaterian species from the marine bathyal of southeastern Australia (Animalia, Metazoa incertae sedis)--with similarities to some medusoids from the Precambrian Ediacara. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 A new genus, Dendrogramma, with two new species of multicellular, non-bilaterian, mesogleal animals with some bilateral aspects, D. enigmatica and D. discoides, are described from the south-east Australian bathyal (400 and 1000 metres depth).
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Meeting report of Ctenopalooza: the first international meeting of ctenophorologists [PDF]
EvoDevo, 2016 Here we present a report on Ctenopalooza: A meeting of ctenophorologists held at the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience in St. Augustine, FL, USA, on March 14–15, 2016.
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The homeodomain complement of the ctenophore
EvoDevo, 2010 Background The much-debated phylogenetic relationships of the five early branching metazoan lineages (Bilateria, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Placozoa and Porifera) are of fundamental importance in piecing together events that occurred early in animal evolution.
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Ctenophora hunanensis sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta) from the Yongle River in Hunan Province, China [PDF]
PhytoKeysA new species, Ctenophora hunanensis Bing Liu & Rioual, sp. nov., found in the Yongle River, a tributary of the Xiang River (Hunan Province, southern China) is described on the basis of morphological observations made under light and scanning ...
Dong-Qin Xiang +4 more
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Digenean metacercaria (Trematoda, Digenea, Lepocreadiidae) parasitizing "coelenterates" (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa and Ctenophora) from Southeastern Brazil [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Oceanography, 2005 Metacercaria specimens of the genus Opechona (Trematoda: Digenea: Lepocreadiidae) are described parasitizing "coelenterates" (scyphomedusae and ctenophores) from Southeastern Brazil (São Paulo state).
André Carrara Morandini +3 more
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Cortical cytasters: a highly conserved developmental trait of Bilateria with similarities to Ctenophora [PDF]
EvoDevo, 2011 Background Cytasters (cytoplasmic asters) are centriole-based nucleation centers of microtubule polymerization that are observable in large numbers in the cortical cytoplasm of the egg and zygote of bilaterian organisms.
Salinas-Saavedra Miguel +1 more
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Flow cytometry methods for targeted isolation of ctenophore cells
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Cell suspension fluidics, such as flow cytometry (FCS) and fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS), facilitates the identification and precise separation of individual cells based on phenotype.
Abigail C. Dieter +9 more
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Speciation of pelagic zooplankton: Invisible boundaries can drive isolation of oceanic ctenophores
Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 The study of evolution and speciation in non-model systems provides us with an opportunity to expand our understanding of biodiversity in nature. Connectivity studies generally focus on species with obvious boundaries to gene flow, but in open-ocean ...
Shannon B. Johnson +9 more
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Transposon-derived transcription factors across metazoans
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2023 Transposable elements (TE) could serve as sources of new transcription factors (TFs) in plants and some other model species, but such evidence is lacking for most animal lineages. Here, we discovered multiple independent co-options of TEs to generate 788
Krishanu Mukherjee +2 more
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