Results 21 to 30 of about 781 (169)
Pseudocnidae of ribbon worms (Nemertea): ultrastructure, maturation, and functional morphology [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 The fine structure of mature pseudocnidae of 32 species of nemerteans, representatives of 20 genera, six families, and two classes was investigated with scanning and transmission electron microscopy.
Timur Yu Magarlamov +2 more
doaj +2 more sources
Toxins, 2019 Most ribbon worms (phylum: Nemertea) are found in marine environments, where they act as predators and scavengers. They are characterized by an eversible proboscis that is used to hunt for prey and thick mucus covering their skin.
Ulf Göransson +3 more
doaj +1 more source
A Minireview on Biodiscovery in Antarctic Marine Benthic Invertebrates
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Antarctic marine benthic invertebrates are an underexplored source of natural products for biodiscovery. Bioactive marine natural products from Antarctica are reviewed here for their potential use as drugs, considering the main examples in Porifera (15 ...
Conxita Avila +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Nemerteans, or ribbon worms, have been reported from intertidal to hadal depths, often showing bathymetrically wide distribution in genus levels. Although current nemertean systematics practices require to provide DNA sequences and infer phylogenetic ...
Natsumi Hookabe +12 more
doaj +1 more source
Fauna Norvegica, 2019 The taxonomic identity of the palaeonemertean Cephalothrix linearis (Rathke, 1799) has been obscure for nearly two centuries, because its original description applies to almost any congeners, including Cephalothrix filiformis (Johnston 1828) and ...
Hiroshi Kajihara
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
Investigation of Peptide Toxin Diversity in Ribbon Worms (Nemertea) Using a Transcriptomic Approach
Toxins, 2022 Nemertea is a phylum of nonsegmented worms (supraphylum: Spiralia), also known as ribbon worms. The members of this phylum contain various toxins, including peptide toxins.
Anna E. Vlasenko +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Scientia Marina, 1999 The community associated to the kelp Macrocystis pyrifera from the Beagle Channel (54°00´S; 68°20´W) was studied. Sixty-eight taxa including Algae (5), Porifera (indet.), Bryozoa (7), Nemertea (2), Annelida (10), Mollusca (22), Crustacea (15) and ...
Mariana L. Adami, Sandra Gordillo
doaj +1 more source
Invertebrate Community Similarity in the Nglambor Intertidal Zone, Indonesia
BIO Web of Conferences, 2021 This study aims to investigate the community composition similarity of invertebrates in the Nglambor intertidal zone. The similarity of invertebrate communities in the Nglambor intertidal zone in Indonesia was studied in August and September 2020..
Putra Aliyani Yoga +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Transplants in annelids, nemerteans and planarians: a tool for embryology, immunology, endocrinology and regeneration research [PDF]
Invertebrate Survival Journal, 2015 While transplantation procedures are often associated with biomedical applications, they are also an invaluable tool for basic research. This review focuses on how transplantation techniques have been used to understand the biology of three large ...
E E Zattara
doaj +1 more source