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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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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Evolution of iGluR ligand specificity, polyamine regulation, and ion selectivity inferred from a placozoan epsilon receptor [PDF]
Communications BiologyEpsilon ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs) are a recently defined clade of neurotransmitter receptors that are found in all major metazoan lineages that are distinct from α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA), kainate, delta ...
Anhadvir Singh +9 more
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The ancestral architecture of the immune system in simplest animals [PDF]
Frontiers in ImmunologyDaria Y. Romanova +2 more
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Transposon-derived transcription factors across metazoans
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2023 Transposable elements (TE) could serve as sources of new transcription factors (TFs) in plants and some other model species, but such evidence is lacking for most animal lineages. Here, we discovered multiple independent co-options of TEs to generate 788
Krishanu Mukherjee +2 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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Current Biology, 2018 Schierwater & DeSalle introduce the enigmatic phylum Placozoa.
Bernd, Schierwater, Rob, DeSalle
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Deep RNA sequencing reveals the smallest known mitochondrial micro exon in animals: The placozoan cox1 single base pair exon. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The phylum Placozoa holds a key position for our understanding of the evolution of mitochondrial genomes in Metazoa. Placozoans possess large mitochondrial genomes which harbor several remarkable characteristics such as a fragmented cox1 gene and trans ...
Hans-Jürgen Osigus +2 more
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Alternative neural systems: What is a neuron? (Ctenophores, sponges and placozoans)
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 How to make a neuron, a synapse, and a neural circuit? Is there only one ‘design’ for a neural architecture with a universally shared genomic blueprint across species?
Leonid L. Moroz +2 more
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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.
Michael Tessler +18 more
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