Evolutionary Analysis of Mitogenomes from Parasitic and Free-Living Flatworms [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) are useful and relatively accessible sources of molecular data to explore and understand the evolutionary history and relationships of eukaryotic organisms across diverse taxonomic levels.
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Natural Products in Polyclad Flatworms
Marine Drugs, 2021 Marine invertebrates are promising sources of novel bioactive secondary metabolites, and organisms like sponges, ascidians and nudibranchs are characterised by possessing potent defensive chemicals.
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Tiny Killers: First Record of Rhabdocoel Flatworms Feeding on Water Flea Embryos [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionFlatworms are increasingly recognised for their ecological significance and potential to disrupt local fauna, yet most research has focused on conspicuous, larger planarians.
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Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Platyhelminthes (flatworms) are a diverse invertebrate phylum useful for exploring life-history evolution. Within Platyhelminthes, only two clades develop through a larval stage: free-living polyclads and parasitic neodermatans.
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An Irish cocktail of flatworm, earthworm and parasite DNAs: genomics of invasive land flatworms (Geoplanidae) reveal infestations by two new Mitosporidium species (Microsporidia) [PDF]
ParasiteAccording to the classical Enemy Release Hypothesis, one reason for the success of invasive species is that they have escaped their predators and parasites during migration to newly invaded territories.
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Mining Differentially Expressed Genes in the Marine Free-Living Flatworm Macrostomum lignano Under Aneuploidy-Driven Ploidy Changes [PDF]
CellsWhole-genome duplication (WGD) is a powerful evolutionary force, yet the mechanisms by which neopolyploids achieve transcriptomic stability and phenotypic success remain poorly understood.
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Search for and functional annotation of multi-domain PLA2 family proteins in flatworms
Вавиловский журнал генетики и селекцииThe phospholipase A2 (PLA2) is a superfamily of hydrolases that catalyze the hydrolysis of phospholipids and play a key role in many molecular processes in the cells and the organism as a whole.
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Sex-inducing effects toward planarians widely present among parasitic flatworms
iScience, 2023 Summary: Various parasitic flatworms infect vertebrates for sexual reproduction, often causing devastating diseases in their hosts. Consequently, flatworms are of great socioeconomic and biomedical importance. Although the cessation of parasitic flatworm
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Diversity, 2023 There is a rapid and extensive decline of our marine biodiversity due to human impacts. However, our ability to understand the extent of these effects is hindered by our lack of knowledge of the occurrence and ecology of some species groups.
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Macrostomum lignano as a model to study the genetics and genomics of parasitic flatworms
Вавиловский журнал генетики и селекции, 2021 Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are infected by various species of parasitic flatworms. Without treatment, acute and chronical infections frequently lead to the development of severe pathologies and even death.
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