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The moulting arthropod: a complete genetic toolkit review
Biological Reviews, Volume 99, Issue 6, Page 2338-2375, December 2024.ABSTRACT Exoskeletons are a defining character of all arthropods that provide physical support for their segmented bodies and appendages as well as protection from the environment and predation. This ubiquitous yet evolutionarily variable feature has been instrumental in facilitating the adoption of a variety of lifestyles and the exploitation of ...
Giulia Campli +10 more
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Origin and evolution of microvilli
Biology of the Cell, Volume 116, Issue 11, November 2024.Microvilli are widespread organelles of animal cells that frequently play a role in sensation and feeding. Ansel et al. reconstitute their origin and evolution by performing a broad morphological survey of microvilli in animals and their unicellular relatives, coupled with a bioinformatic study of the phylogenetic distribution of the main microvillar ...
Mylan Ansel +3 more
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Developmental and genomic insight into the origin of the tardigrade body plan
Evolution &Development, Volume 26, Issue 4, July 2024.Three hypotheses for the homology of tardigrade segments to segments of other panarthropods. H, tardigrade head; T1‐T4, tardigrade trunk segment 1–trunk segment 4. Abstract Tardigrada is an ancient lineage of miniaturized animals. As an outgroup of the well‐studied Arthropoda and Onychophora, studies of tardigrades hold the potential to reveal ...
Frank W. Smith +5 more
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Ecdysis in a stem-group euarthropod from the early Cambrian of China
Scientific Reports, 2019 Moulting is a fundamental component of the ecdysozoan life cycle, but the fossil record of this strategy is susceptible to preservation biases, making evidence of ecdysis in soft-bodied organisms extremely rare. Here, we report an exceptional specimen of
Jie Yang +4 more
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Maternal age effects on offspring lifespan and reproduction vary within a species
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 5, May 2024.We compared maternal age effects among four strains of rotifers in the Brachionus plicatilis species complex. For each strain, we measured lifespan, reproductive schedule, and lifetime reproductive output of offspring produced by young, middle‐aged, and old mothers.
Alyssa Liguori +4 more
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2013 A vital feature in the success of Ecdysozoa is their ability to shed their exoskeleton (a process called ecdysis) such that they can grow or change their morphology.
Do Hee eLee +2 more
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Mixed evolutionary origins of endogenous biomass-depolymerizing enzymes in animals
BMC Genomics, 2018 Background Animals are thought to achieve lignocellulose digestion via symbiotic associations with gut microbes; this view leads to significant focus on bacteria and fungi for lignocellulolytic systems.
Wai Hoong Chang, Alvina G. Lai
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Palaeontological and Molecular Evidence Linking Arthropods, Onychophorans, and other Ecdysozoa [PDF]
Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2009 Membership of Arthropoda in a clade of molting animals, the Ecdysozoa, has received a growing body of support over the past 10 years from analyses of DNA sequences from many genes together with morphological characters involving the cuticle and its molting.
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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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Computational and Structural Biotechnology JournalDetailed explorations of the model organisms Caenorhabditis elegans (elegant worm) and Drosophila melanogaster (vinegar fly) have substantially improved our knowledge and understanding of biological processes and pathways in metazoan organisms. Extensive
Túlio L. Campos +4 more
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