Halloween genes in panarthropods and the evolution of the early moulting pathway in Ecdysozoa [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Moulting is a characteristic feature of Ecdysozoa—the clade of moulting animals that includes the hyperdiverse arthropods and less speciose groups, such as onychophorans, tardigrades and nematodes.
Isabell Schumann +2 more
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Early evolution of the ecdysozoan body plan [PDF]
eLifeExtant ecdysozoans (moulting animals) are represented by a great variety of soft-bodied or articulated organisms that may or may not have appendages. However, controversies remain about the vermiform nature (i.e. elongated and tubular) of their ancestral
Deng Wang +12 more
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Biology, 2023 Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule that is involved in a wide range of physiological processes in plants, including responses to biotic and abiotic stresses.
Jakub Graska +5 more
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Phylogeny and mitochondrial gene order variation in Lophotrochozoa in the light of new mitogenomic data from Nemertea [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2009 Background The new animal phylogeny established several taxa which were not identified by morphological analyses, most prominently the Ecdysozoa (arthropods, roundworms, priapulids and others) and Lophotrochozoa (molluscs, annelids, brachiopods and ...
von Döhren Jörn +4 more
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New records of fungal pathogens of invertebrates from endemic pine forests in Mexico [PDF]
Check List, 2022 We report fungal pathogens of invertebrates (FPI) (Entomophthorales, Hypocreales, and Orbiliales) from roots of an endemic Mexican pine, Pinus greggii Engelm. ex Parl., at four primary montane forests using next-generation sequencing.
Rebeca Casique-Valdés +3 more
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Cellular morphology of leg musculature in the water bear Hypsibius exemplaris (Tardigrada) unravels serial homologies [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Tardigrades (water bears) are microscopic, segmented ecdysozoans with four pairs of legs. Lobopodous limbs that are similar to those seen in tardigrades are hypothesized to represent the ancestral state of Panarthropoda (Tardigrada + Onychophora ...
Vladimir Gross, Georg Mayer
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Mitochondrial Genomes of Kinorhyncha: trnM Duplication and New Gene Orders within Animals. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Many features of mitochondrial genomes of animals, such as patterns of gene arrangement, nucleotide content and substitution rate variation are extensively used in evolutionary and phylogenetic studies.
Olga V Popova +9 more
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The Structure and Function of Ionotropic Receptors in Drosophila
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2021 Ionotropic receptors (IRs) are a highly divergent subfamily of ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluR) and are conserved across Protostomia, a major branch of the animal kingdom that encompasses both Ecdysozoa and Lophothrochozoa.
Lina Ni
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Voltage-Gated Proton Channels in the Tree of Life
Biomolecules, 2023 With a single gene encoding HV1 channel, proton channel diversity is particularly low in mammals compared to other members of the superfamily of voltage-gated ion channels.
Gustavo Chaves +3 more
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New insights into the limited thermotolerance of anhydrobiotic tardigrades
Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2020 The recent discovery of an upper limit in the tolerance of an extremotolerant tardigrade to high temperatures is astounding. Although these microinvertebrates are able to endure severe environmental conditions, including desiccation, freezing and high ...
Ricardo Cardoso Neves +2 more
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