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Innate immunity in the simplest animals – placozoans
BMC Genomics, 2019 Background Innate immunity provides the core recognition system in animals for preventing infection, but also plays an important role in managing the relationship between an animal host and its symbiont.
Kai Kamm, Bernd Schierwater, Rob DeSalle
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Rho Family of Ras-Like GTPases in Early-Branching Animals
Cells, 2020 Non-bilaterian animals consist of four phyla; Porifera, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, and Placozoa. These early-diverging animals are crucial for understanding the evolution of the entire animal lineage.
Silvestar Beljan +2 more
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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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New insights into placozoan sexual reproduction and development.
PLoS ONE, 2011 Unraveling animal life cycles and embryonic development is basic to understanding animal biology and often sheds light on phylogenetic relationships. A key group for understanding the evolution of the Metazoa is the early branching phylum Placozoa, which
Michael Eitel +4 more
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Placozoa and Cnidaria are sister taxa
eLife, 2017 Abstract 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 splits in the animal phylogeny.
Laumer, Christopher E. +6 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2021 In 2009, apicortin was identified in silico as a characteristic protein of apicomplexans that also occurs in the placozoa, Trichoplax adhaerens. Since then, it has been found that apicortin also occurs in free-living cousins of apicomplexans (chromerids)
Ferenc Orosz
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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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Let’s end taxonomic blank slates with molecular morphology
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Many known evolutionary lineages have yet to be described formally due to a lack of traditional morphological characters. This is true for genetically distinctive groups within the amoeboid Placozoa animals, the protists in ponds, and the bacteria that ...
Michael Tessler +8 more
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New genomic data and analyses challenge the traditional vision of animal epithelium evolution
BMC Genomics, 2018 Background The emergence of epithelia was the foundation of metazoan expansion. Epithelial tissues are a hallmark of metazoans deeply rooted in the evolution of their complex developmental morphogenesis processes.
Hassiba Belahbib +6 more
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Exploring Mesophotic Coral Reef Boundaries Using Environmental DNA Metabarcoding
Environmental DNA, Volume 8, Issue 4, July‐August 2026.Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding reveals boundaries along depth gradients in shallow and mesophotic coral reefs. Analysis of metazoan amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) uncovers changes in community structure from shallow to deep reefs, highlighting a localized eDNA footprint and its potential for monitoring mesophotic and deep‐sea habitats ...
Aran Sofer, Omri Bronstein
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