Phylogenomics and the first higher taxonomy of Placozoa, an ancient and enigmatic animal phylum
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Placozoa is an ancient phylum of extraordinarily unusual animals: miniscule, ameboid creatures that lack most fundamental animal features. Despite high genetic diversity, only recently have the second and third species been named.
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Coordinated cellular behavior regulated by epinephrine neurotransmitters in the nerveless placozoa [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsUnderstanding how cells communicated before the evolution of nervous systems in early metazoans is key to unraveling the origins of multicellular life.
Minjun Jin +7 more
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Frontiers in Marine SciencePlacozoa are small disc-shaped animals representing one of the early branching metazoan lineages with only a dozen cell types, fast effector reactions, and complex behaviors.
Daria Y. Romanova +3 more
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 Bilateria have bilateral symmetry and are subdivided into Deuterostomia (animals like vertebrates) and Protostomia (animals like insects and mollusks).
Frank Hauser +3 more
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Tolerance of Placozoa for temperate climates: Evidence for known and new placozoan clades in the southern waters of Australia. [PDF]
PLoS OnePlacozoans are small multicellular sea-dwelling animals that are typically found in shallow, warm ocean waters and have been reported in various marine environments worldwide.
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Dendrogramma, new genus, with two new non-bilaterian species from the marine bathyal of southeastern Australia (Animalia, Metazoa incertae sedis)--with similarities to some medusoids from the Precambrian Ediacara. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 A new genus, Dendrogramma, with two new species of multicellular, non-bilaterian, mesogleal animals with some bilateral aspects, D. enigmatica and D. discoides, are described from the south-east Australian bathyal (400 and 1000 metres depth).
Jean Just +3 more
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Apicortin, a Putative Apicomplexan-Specific Protein, Is Present in Deep-Branching Opisthokonts [PDF]
BiologyApicortin, a tubulin/microtubule-binding protein, was first described in 2009 as a protein characteristic of apicomplexans; it was found to be present in all Apicomplexa genomes already sequenced.
Ferenc Orosz
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Identification, distribution and molecular evolution of the pacifastin gene family in Metazoa [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009 Background Members of the pacifastin family are serine peptidase inhibitors, most of which are produced as multi domain precursor proteins. Structural and biochemical characteristics of insect pacifastin-like peptides have been studied intensively, but ...
Van Soest Sofie +4 more
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Communications Biology, 2023 ASIC channels are bilaterian proton-gated sodium channels belonging to the large and functionally-diverse Deg/ENaC family that also includes peptide- and mechanically-gated channels.
Wassim Elkhatib +7 more
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The enigmatic Placozoa part 1: Exploring evolutionary controversies and poor ecological knowledge
BioEssays, 2021 The placozoan Trichoplax adhaerens is a tiny hairy plate and more simply organized than any other living metazoan. After its original description by F.E.
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