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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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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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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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Morphological support for the phylogenetic positioning of Pentastomida and related fossils [PDF]
Biotemas, 2008 Pentastomida is a group of parasites that infects the respiratory tracts of vertebrates. They have a mixture of annelid and arthropod characteristics.
Elaine Christine Costa Eloy +3 more
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Coelomata and Not Ecdysozoa: Evidence From Genome-Wide Phylogenetic Analysis [PDF]
Genome Research, 2004 Relative positions of nematodes, arthropods, and chordates in animal phylogeny remain uncertain. The traditional tree topology joins arthropods with chordates in a coelomate clade, whereas nematodes, which lack a coelome, occupy a basal position. However, the current leading hypothesis, based on phylogenetic trees for 18S ribosomal RNA and several ...
Yuri I, Wolf +2 more
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BMC Genomics, 2007 Background: Schistosoma mansoni is a blood helminth parasite that causes schistosomiasis, a disease that affects 200 million people in the world. Many orthologs of known mammalian genes have been discovered in this parasite and evidence is accumulating ...
Verjovski-Almeida Sergio +5 more
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Progress and Challenges in Phylogenomics and Genomics of Lophotrochozoa/Spiralia
Zoologica Scripta, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 521-544, July 2026.ABSTRACT Lophotrochozoa is one of the three major bilaterian groups comprising more than half of the bilaterian phyla. Lophotrochozoa includes among others Mollusca, Annelida, Platyhelminthes and Rotifera. Despite representing such a large proportion of animal diversity, they are historically understudied and genomic resources have been scarce. However,
Torsten H. Struck
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019 Background The Scalidophora (Kinorhyncha, Loricifera and Priapulida) have an important phylogenetic position as early branching ecdysozoans, yet the architecture of their nervous organ systems is notably underinvestigated.
María Herranz +3 more
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