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Short and random: Modelling the effects of (proto-)neural elongations [PDF]
, 2017 To understand how neurons and nervous systems first evolved, we need an account of the origins of neural elongations: Why did neural elongations (axons and dendrites) first originate, such that they could become the central component of both neurons and ...
de Wiljes, Oltman O. +2 more
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Neuropeptidergic integration of behavior in Trichoplax adhaerens, an animal without synapses
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2017 ABSTRACT Trichoplax adhaerens is a flat, millimeter-sized marine animal that adheres to surfaces and grazes on algae. Trichoplax displays a repertoire of different feeding behaviors despite the apparent absence of a true nervous system with electrical or chemical synapses. It glides along surfaces to find food, propelled by beating cilia
Adriano Senatore +2 more
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From tumors to species: a SCANDAL hypothesis
Biology Direct, 2019 Some tumor cells can evolve into transmissible parasites. Notable examples include the Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease, the canine transmissible venereal tumor and transmissible cancers of mollusks.
A. Y. Panchin +2 more
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Comparative analysis of Drosophila and mammalian complexins as fusion clamps and facilitators of neurotransmitter release [PDF]
, 2010 The SNARE-binding protein complexin (Cpx) has been demonstrated to regulate synaptic vesicle fusion. Previous studies are consistent with Cpx functioning either as a synaptic vesicle fusion clamp to prevent premature exocytosis, or as a facilitator to ...
Cho, Richard W. +2 more
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EvoDevo, 2010 Background Homeobox genes are a superclass of transcription factors with diverse developmental regulatory functions, which are found in plants, fungi and animals.
Mazza Maureen E +4 more
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Evolution of selenoproteins in the metazoan
BMC Genomics, 2012 Background The selenocysteine (Sec) containing proteins, selenoproteins, are an important group of proteins present throughout all 3 kingdoms of life.
Jiang Liang, Ni Jiazuan, Liu Qiong
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Steroid Receptors and Vertebrate Evolution
, 2019 Considering that life on earth evolved about 3.7 billion years ago, vertebrates are young, appearing in the fossil record during the Cambrian explosion about 542 to 515 million years ago.
Baker, Michael E.
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Proteolysis of HCF-1 by Ser/Thr glycosylation-incompetent O-GlcNAc transferase:UDP-GlcNAc complexes [PDF]
, 2016 In complex with the cosubstrate UDP-N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc),O-linked-GlcNAc transferase (OGT) catalyzes Ser/ThrO-GlcNAcylation of many cellular proteins and proteolysis of the transcriptional coregulator HCF-1.
Bhuiyan, Tanja +6 more
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2010 Background Comparative genomics of the early diverging metazoan lineages and of their unicellular sister-groups opens new window to reconstructing the genetic changes which preceded or accompanied the evolution of multicellular body plans.
Manuel Michaël, Alié Alexandre
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EngAfter the successful flight of the first Advanced Processors, Encryption, and Security Experiment (apex) Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) On-Board Computer (OBC) during the Propulsion Technologies and Components of Launcher Stages (ATEK)/Material Physics ...
Nico Maas +8 more
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