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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Comparative Multi-Marker Environmental DNA Metabarcoding of Marine Metazoan Communities: Water vs. Sediment. [PDF]
Mol Ecol ResourABSTRACT This study investigates the metazoan biodiversity in the Southern Adriatic Sea using environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding. Sediment and adjacent water samples were collected from three sites (one pristine, two impacted by human activities) at three distances from the coast across two seasons.
Tagliabue A +8 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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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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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CATIONIC TRPA1-CHANNALS FAMILY IN TRICHOPLAX SP. H2 (PLACOZOA)
Russian Journal of Biological Physics and Chemisrty, 2022 Mechanoreceptors can transform external mechanical forces into electrochemical signals that induce cell membrane depolarization and initiate waves propagating along the cell surface. The TRPN1/NompC mechanotransduction channel is known to contain ankyrin
M. Fadeeva +3 more
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Selective behavioral response of Trichoplax (Placozoa) to RGB-light stimuli
Hygiene and Sanitation, 2022 Introduction. The marine animal Trichoplax (Placozoa), which has the animalcular organization among invertebrates, but with outstanding social behaviour and specific movement of the body and its cells, is a model animal for studying various biophysical ...
V. Kaptsov +2 more
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Why Homoscleromorph Sponges Have Ciliated Epithelia: Evidence for an Ancestral Role in Mucociliary Driven Particle Flux. [PDF]
J Exp Zool B Mol Dev EvolEpithelia are typically ciliated, except in sponges. Of all Porifera only Homoscleromorphs have motile cilia on their epithelia. Our data highlight the presence of cilia and mucociliary particle transport as a common feature of metazoa and a secondary loss in other sponge lineages.
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Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022 CaV1 and CaV2 voltage-gated calcium channels evolved from an ancestral CaV1/2 channel via gene duplication somewhere near the stem animal lineage. The divergence of these channel types led to distinguishing functional properties that are conserved among ...
Julia Gauberg +4 more
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