Journal of Water and Climate Change, 2023 Ctenophores are quick responders to coastal environmental changes and play a crucial role in marine food web dynamics. We report the environmental drivers of a ctenophore swarm (Pleurobrachia spp.) and associated ecological changes in estuarine and ...
Alfisa Siddique +4 more
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Ctenophora flaveolata (Fabricius, 1794) (Diptera: Tipulidae) – a cranefly species new for Russia and the Caucasus [PDF]
Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2019 So far, three species of craneflies from the genus Ctenophora Meigen, 1803 are known in the Caucasus for certain: C. (Ctenophora) guttata Meigen, 1818, C. (Cnemoncosis) ornata Meigen, 1818 and C. (Cnemoncosis) magnifica Loew, 1869.
V.I. Lantsov, A.R. Bibin
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Alternative neural systems: What is a neuron? (Ctenophores, sponges and placozoans)
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 How to make a neuron, a synapse, and a neural circuit? Is there only one ‘design’ for a neural architecture with a universally shared genomic blueprint across species?
Leonid L. Moroz +2 more
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Very few sites can reshape the inferred phylogenetic tree [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 The history of animal evolution, and the relative placement of extant animal phyla in this history is, in principle, testable from phylogenies derived from molecular sequence data. Though datasets have increased in size and quality in the past years, the
Warren R. Francis, Donald E. Canfield
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Why Homoscleromorph Sponges Have Ciliated Epithelia: Evidence for an Ancestral Role in Mucociliary Driven Particle Flux. [PDF]
J Exp Zool B Mol Dev EvolEpithelia are typically ciliated, except in sponges. Of all Porifera only Homoscleromorphs have motile cilia on their epithelia. Our data highlight the presence of cilia and mucociliary particle transport as a common feature of metazoa and a secondary loss in other sponge lineages.
Price VL +9 more
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Scyphomedusae and Ctenophora of the Eastern Adriatic: Historical Overview and New Data
Diversity, 2021 One of the obstacles to detecting regional trends in jellyfish populations is the lack of a defined baseline. In the Adriatic Sea, the jellyfish fauna (Scyphozoa and Ctenophora) is poorly studied compared to other taxa. Therefore, our goal was to collect
Branka Pestorić +7 more
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Medusae and ctenophores from the Bahia Blanca Estuary and neighboring inner shelf (Southwest Atlantic Ocean, Argentina) [PDF]
, 2017 An updated checklist of medusae and ctenophores is presented for the first time for the area comprised by the Bahía Blanca Estuary, the adjacent shelf El Rincón and Monte Hermoso beach, on the southwest coast of Buenos Aires province (Argentina).
Dutto, María Sofía +5 more
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Modelling survival and connectivity of Mnemiopsis leidyi in the south-western North Sea and Scheldt estuaries [PDF]
, 2015 Three different models were applied to study the reproduction, survival and dispersal of Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Scheldt estuaries and the southern North Sea: a high-resolution particle tracking model with passive particles, a low-resolution particle ...
Augustine, S. +9 more
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The genetic factors of bilaterian evolution
eLife, 2020 The Cambrian explosion was a unique animal radiation ~540 million years ago that produced the full range of body plans across bilaterians. The genetic mechanisms underlying these events are unknown, leaving a fundamental question in evolutionary biology ...
Peter Heger +4 more
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A Screen for Gene Paralogies Delineating Evolutionary Branching Order of Early Metazoa
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2020 The evolutionary diversification of animals is one of Earth’s greatest marvels, yet its earliest steps are shrouded in mystery. Animals, the monophyletic clade known as Metazoa, evolved wildly divergent multicellular life strategies featuring ciliated ...
Albert Erives, Bernd Fritzsch
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