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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009 Background Since the drastic reorganisation of the phylogeny of the animal kingdom into three major clades of bilaterians; Ecdysozoa, Lophotrochozoa and Deuterostomia, it became glaringly obvious that the selection of model systems with extensive ...
Chen Wei-Chung +6 more
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Rare Coding Sequence Changes are Consistent with Ecdysozoa, not Coelomata [PDF]
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2007 There is growing interest in the use of alternative, more slowly-evolving RGCs (rare genomic changes). Recently, Rogozin and coauthors (Rogozin et al. 2007) proposed a novel phylogenetic method employing rare amino acid changes, RGC-CAMs (rare genomic changes-conserved amino acids-multiple substitutions).
Manuel, Irimia +4 more
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Frontiers in Zoology, 2006 Background To understand the evolution of animals it is essential to have taxon sampling across a representative spread of the animal kingdom. With the recent rearrangement of most of the Bilateria into three major clades (Ecdysozoa, Lophotrochozoa and ...
Shimeld Sebastian M +3 more
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Peripheral and central employment of acid-sensing ion channels during early bilaterian evolution
eLife, 2023 Nervous systems are endowed with rapid chemosensation and intercellular signaling by ligand-gated ion channels (LGICs). While a complex, bilaterally symmetrical nervous system is a major innovation of bilaterian animals, the employment of specific LGICs ...
Josep Martí-Solans +4 more
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Parasites & Vectors, 2020 Background It is hypothesised that being a blood-feeding ectoparasite, Argulus foliaceus (Linnaeus, 1758), uses similar mechanisms for digestion and host immune evasion to those used by other haematophagous ecdysozoa, including caligid copepods (e.g. sea
Aisha AmbuAli +6 more
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The Ecdysozoa: Artifact or monophylum?
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 2009 The molecular support for the recently postulated hypothesis ‘Ecdysozoa’ is re-examined. Some 18S rDNA-alignments clearly contain a pattern of character states that cause tree building methods to identify a clade comprised of arthropods and Cycloneuralia.
J. W. Wägele +3 more
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Growth and Maintenance of Wolbachia in Insect Cell Lines
Insects, 2021 The obligate intracellular microbe, Wolbachia pipientis (Rickettsiales; Anaplasmataceae), is a Gram-negative member of the alpha proteobacteria that infects arthropods and filarial worms.
Ann M. Fallon
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019 Background Tardigrada is a group of microscopic invertebrates distributed worldwide in permanent and temporal aquatic habitats. Famous for their extreme stress tolerance, tardigrades are also of interest due to their close relationship with Arthropoda ...
Dennis Krog Persson +5 more
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2023 Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) are key constituents of the invertebrate innate immune system and provide critical protection against microbial threat.
Allister Irvine +3 more
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The Natural History of Teneurins: A Billion Years of Evolution in Three Key Steps
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019 The entire evolutionary history of the animal gene family, Teneurin, can be summed up in three key steps, plus three salient footnotes. In a shared ancestor of all bilaterians, the first step began with gene fusions that created a protein with an amino ...
Ron Wides
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