Coordinated Feeding Behavior in Trichoplax, an Animal without Synapses. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Trichoplax is a small disk-shaped marine metazoan that adheres to substrates and locomotes by ciliary gliding. Despite having only six cell types and lacking synapses Trichoplax coordinates a complex sequence of behaviors culminating in external ...
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Social Feeding Behavior of Trichoplax adhaerens [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Animals have evolved different foraging strategies in which some animals forage independently and others forage in groups. The evolution of social feeding does not necessarily require cooperation, social feeding can be a beneficial individual-level ...
Angelo Fortunato, Athena Aktipis
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Cells containing aragonite crystals mediate responses to gravity in Trichoplax adhaerens (Placozoa), an animal lacking neurons and synapses. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Trichoplax adhaerens has only six cell types. The function as well as the structure of crystal cells, the least numerous cell type, presented an enigma. Crystal cells are arrayed around the perimeter of the animal and each contains a birefringent crystal.
Tatiana D Mayorova +7 more
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Amino acids integrate behaviors in nerveless placozoans [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 Placozoans are the simplest known free-living animals without recognized neurons and muscles but a complex behavioral repertoire. However, mechanisms and cellular bases of behavioral coordination are unknown.
Mikhail A. Nikitin +4 more
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Long-term dynamics of placozoan culture: emerging models for population and space biology [PDF]
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental BiologyAs the simplest free-living animal, Trichoplax adhaerens (Placozoa) is emerging as a powerful paradigm to decipher molecular and cellular bases of behavior, enabling integrative studies at all levels of biological organization in the context of metazoan ...
Daria Y. Romanova +6 more
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PLoS Biology, 2021 Trichoplax adhaerens is the simplest multicellular animal with tissue differentiation and somatic cell turnover. Like all other multicellular organisms, it should be vulnerable to cancer, yet there have been no reports of cancer in T.
Angelo Fortunato +3 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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Coordinated cellular behavior regulated by epinephrine neurotransmitters in the nerveless placozoa [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsUnderstanding how cells communicated before the evolution of nervous systems in early metazoans is key to unraveling the origins of multicellular life.
Minjun Jin +7 more
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Correction: Upregulation of DNA repair genes and cell extrusion underpin the remarkable radiation resistance of Trichoplax adhaerens. [PDF]
PLoS Biology[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001471.].
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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.
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