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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Social Feeding Behavior of Trichoplax adhaerens
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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The cobalamin processing enzyme of Trichoplax adhaerens. [PDF]
J Biol ChemCobalamin (Cbl) is an essential cofactor for methionine synthase and methylmalonyl-CoA mutase, but it must first undergo chemical processing for utilization in animals. In humans, this processing comprises β-axial ligand cleavage and Cbl reduction and is
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An ancient lysozyme in placozoans participates in acidic extracellular digestion [PDF]
Communications BiologyLysozymes are an essential part of immunity and nutrition in metazoans, degrading bacterial cell walls via the hydrolysis of peptidoglycan. Although various lysozymes have been reported for higher animals, the origin of animal lysozymes remains elusive ...
Henry Berndt +8 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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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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Characterizing the evolution and potential function of eleven horizontally transferred genes in amphioxus [PDF]
Communications BiologyHorizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the important driver for biological evolution. To date, most of the studies on HGT have focused on prokaryotes, and the HGTs involving eukaryotes are less investigated, especially for HGTs occurring in chordates. In this
Yunpeng Cao +4 more
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Biology Open, 2019 The disk-shaped millimeter-sized marine animal, Trichoplax adhaerens, is notable because of its small number of cell types and primitive mode of feeding.
Tatiana D. Mayorova +4 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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Effects of low frequency rectangular electric pulses on Trichoplax (Placozoa)
Marine Biological Journal, 2020 The effect of extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields (ELF-EMF) on plants and animals including humans is quite a contentious issue. Little is known about ELF-EMF effect on hydrobionts, too.
A. Kuznetsov +4 more
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