The first data on the innervation of the lophophore in the rhynchonelliform brachiopod Hemithiris psittacea: what is the ground pattern of the lophophore in lophophorates? [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017 Background The nervous system in brachiopods has seldom been studied with modern methods. An understanding of lophophore innervation in adult brachiopods is useful for comparing the innervation of the same lophophore type among different brachiopods and ...
Elena Temereva +2 more
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The nervous system of the most complex lophophore provides new insights into the evolution of Brachiopoda [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 The lophophore is a tentacle organ unique to the lophophorates. Recent research has revealed that the organization of the nervous and muscular systems of the lophophore is similar in phoronids, brachiopods, and bryozoans.
Elena Temereva +2 more
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Proliferating activity in a bryozoan lophophore [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Bryozoans are small benthic colonial animals; their colonies consist of zooids which are composed of a cystid and polypide. According to morphological and molecular data, three classes of bryozoans are recognized: Phylactolaemata, Gymnolaemata and ...
Natalia Shunatova, Ilya Borisenko
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Modern Data on the Innervation of the Lophophore in Lingula anatina (Brachiopoda) Support the Monophyly of the Lophophorates [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Evolutionary relationships among members of the Lophophorata remain unclear. Traditionally, the Lophophorata included three phyla: Brachiopoda, Bryozoa or Ectoprocta, and Phoronida.
Elena Temereva
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First Modern Data on the Lophophore Nervous System in Adult Novocrania anomala and a Current Assessment of Brachiopod Phylogeny [PDF]
Biology, 2022 Although the lophophore is regarded as the main synapomorphy of all lophophorates, the evolution of the lophophore in certain groups of lophophorates remains unclear.
Elena Temereva
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A comparative analysis of the nervous system of cheilostome bryozoans [PDF]
BMC Zoology, 2021 Background Bryozoans are sessile aquatic suspension feeders in mainly marine, but also freshwater habitats. Most species belong to the marine and calcified Cheilostomata.
Jakob Prömer +2 more
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First record of the smallest extant brachiopod Gwynia capsula (Jeffreys, 1859) from the German Bight. [PDF]
PLoS ONEWe describe for the first time the occurrence of the smallest extant brachiopod, Gwynia capsula (Jeffreys, 1859), from the island of Helgoland. A single living specimen was found in dredged shell gravel from the Helgoland trench ("Tiefe Rinne") mainly ...
Carsten Lüter +2 more
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Are hyoliths Palaeozoic lophophorates? [PDF]
Natl Sci Rev, 2020 Abstract The phylogenetic position of hyoliths has long been unsettled, with recent discoveries of a tentaculate feeding apparatus (‘lophophore’) and fleshy apical extensions from the shell (‘pedicle’) suggesting a lophophorate affinity.
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The nervous system in the cyclostome bryozoan Crisia eburnea as revealed by transmission electron and confocal laser scanning microscopy [PDF]
Frontiers in Zoology, 2018 Introduction Among bryozoans, cyclostome anatomy is the least studied by modern methods. New data on the nervous system fill the gap in our knowledge and make morphological analysis much more fruitful to resolve some questions of bryozoan evolution and ...
Elena N. Temereva, Igor A. Kosevich
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Evidence of lophophore diversity in Early Cambrian Brachiopoda [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2003 The lophophore, an essential organ of the Brachiopoda, has been used widely in evolutionary and advanced phylogenetic studies, but is hitherto unknown in the fossil record. Here, the extraordinarily well-preserved lophophores of two inarticulated brachiopods Lingulella chengjiangensis and Heliomedusa orienta, from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna ...
Xianguang Hou, Xi-Guang Zhang
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