Beauty in the beast – Placozoan biodiversity explored through molluscan predator genomics [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionThe marine animal phylum Placozoa is characterized by a poorly explored cryptic biodiversity combined with very limited knowledge of their ecology.
Michael Eitel +3 more
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Expanding of Life Strategies in Placozoa: Insights From Long-Term Culturing of Trichoplax and Hoilungia [PDF]
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 Placozoans are essential reference species for understanding the origins and evolution of animal organization. However, little is known about their life strategies in natural habitats.
Daria Y. Romanova +5 more
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Placozoa and Cnidaria are sister taxa [PDF]
, 2017 AbstractThe phylogenetic placement of the morphologically simple placozoans is crucial to understanding the evolution of complex animal traits. Here, we examine the influence of adding new genomes from placozoans to a large dataset designed to study the deepest splits in the animal phylogeny.
Christopher Laumer +6 more
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Placozoa – no longer a phylum of one [PDF]
Current Biology, 2004 AbstractMore than a century ago, the simplest of all metazoans was discovered and described as Trichoplax adhaerens[1]. These tiny, flattened animals lack symmetry, mouth, gut, nervous system, and extra-cellular matrix and constitute the apparently monotypic phylum Placozoa.
Oliver Voigt +6 more
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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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Placozoa Are Not Derived Cnidarians: Evidence from Molecular Morphology [PDF]
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2003 The phylum Placozoa is represented by a single known species, Trichoplax adhaerens, a tiny marine organism that represents the most simple metazoan bauplan. Because of the latter, placozoans were originally considered the most basal metazoan phylum.
Andrea Ender, Bernd Schierwater
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Current Biology, 2018 Schierwater & DeSalle introduce the enigmatic phylum Placozoa.
Bernd Schierwater, Rob DeSalle
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Phylogenomics and the first higher taxonomy of Placozoa, an ancient and enigmatic animal phylum [PDF]
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.
Michael Tessler +18 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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First record of Placozoa from the Gulf of Mexico
Hidrobiológica, 2017 Placozoa is a phylum with only one species:Trichoplax adhaerens (F. E. Schulze, 1883); recent genetic studies suggest, however,that several haplotypes inhabit tropical and subtropical waters around the world. Placozoans have been found usually close to littoral zones where mangrove forests occur. Goals. To provide the second record of this species from
Rodrigo Cuervo González
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