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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Animal Evolution: The Enigmatic Phylum Placozoa Revisited [PDF]
Current Biology, 2005 A recent report of high levels of genetic variation between strains of Trichoplax adhaerens challenges the traditional view that the phylum Placozoa comprises only one species. At the morphological level, placozoans are amongst the simplest extant animals, but molecular evidence suggests that they may have more complex origins.
David J. Miller, Eldon E. Ball
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Bioeffects of Prunus spinosa L. fruit ethanol extract on reproduction and phenotypic plasticity of Trichoplax adhaerens Schulze, 1883 (Placozoa) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 The aim of this work was to test and analyse the bioeffects of Prunus spinosa L. (Rosacaee) fruit ethanol extract on Trichoplax adhaerens Schulze, 1883 (Placozoa) laboratory cultures which—for the first time—were employed as in vivo biological model to ...
Maria Cristina Albertini +12 more
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Support for a clade of Placozoa and Cnidaria in genes with minimal compositional bias
eLife, 2018 The 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 ...
Christopher E Laumer +6 more
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Phylogenetic position, biodiversity, phylogeography and biology of the Placozoa
, 2010 [no abstract]
Michael Eitel
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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 +1 more
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Разнообразие клеточных типов у гаплотипа H4 Placozoa sp.
Marine Biological Journal, 2019 Эволюционная ветвь Пластинчатых (Placozoa) имеет большое значение для понимания происхождения и эволюции Metazoa. Представители типа Placozoa обладают простым строением тела, однако полное отсутствие органов, нервной системы и мышечных клеток резко контрастирует с достаточно сложными поведенческими реакциями, в том числе динамическими изменениями формы
Daria Y. Romanova
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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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Tolerance of Placozoa for temperate climates: Evidence for known and new placozoan clades in the southern waters of Australia. [PDF]
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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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