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Beauty in the beast – Placozoan biodiversity explored through molluscan predator genomics
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 4, April 2024.Previous assumptions about the primary habitat of Placozoa are challenged, and their broader diversity beyond disc‐shaped grazers in coastal waters is revealed. The discovery of placozoan‐predatory sea slugs prompts consideration of a new ecological niche: seafloor sediment interstices.
Michael Eitel +3 more
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Proteoglycans in mechanobiology of tissues and organs: Normal functions and mechanopathology
Proteoglycan Research, Volume 2, Issue 2, April-June 2024.Abstract Proteoglycans (PGs) are a diverse class of glycoconjugates that serve critical functions in normal mechanobiology and mechanopathology. Both the protein cores and attached glycosaminoglycan (GAG) chains function in mechanically sensitive processes, and loss of either can contribute to development of pathological conditions. PGs function as key
Mary C. Farach‐Carson +2 more
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Importance of fatty acid binding proteins in cellular function and organismal metabolism
Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Volume 28, Issue 5, March 2024.Abstract Fatty acid binding proteins (Fabps) are small soluble proteins that are abundant in the cytosol. These proteins are known to bind a myriad of small hydrophobic molecules and have been postulated to serve a variety of roles, yet their precise functions have remained an enigma over half a century of study.
Luis B. Agellon
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CELL TYPES DIVERSITY OF H4 HAPLOTYPE PLACOZOA SP.
, 2019 Placozoa is one of the five basal metazoan lineages critical for our understanding of animal evolution in general, and the origin of neuromuscular organization in particular.
Романова, Д. Ю.
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Phylogenetic position of Placozoa based on large subunit (LSU) and small subunit (SSU) rRNA genes
Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2007 The phylum Placozoa, represented by its single species Trichoplax adhaerens, has always been considered one of the most basal animal clades due to its low morphological complexity.
Fernanda Britto da Silva +2 more
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Two intracellular and cell type-specific bacterial symbionts in the placozoan Trichoplax H2 [PDF]
, 2019 Placozoa is an enigmatic phylum of simple, microscopic, marine metazoans(1,2). Although intracellular bacteria have been found in all members of this phylum, almost nothing is known about their identity, location and interactions with their host(3-6). We
Hadfield, M. +7 more
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, 2018 Trichoplax adhaerens is a primitive metazoan with six cell types that lacks a nervous system and synapses. One cell type, dubbed gland cells, line the periphery of its flat disc- shaped body and resemble neurons by expressing membrane apposed secretory ...
Abdallah, Salsabil
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, 2020 The origin and early evolution of neurotransmitter signaling in animals are unclear due to limited comparative information, primarily about prebilaterian animals.
Varoqueaux, F. +6 more
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Data-Driven Analysis of the Trichoplax Adhaerens [PDF]
, 2023 Biological systems, particularly animals, are a hotspot of highly sophisticated and non-trivial dynamics. They consist of a myriad of motile self-driven and simultaneously interacting entities.
Tannous, Layal
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Evolution of the TGF-β signaling pathway and its potential role in the ctenophore, Mnemiopsis leidyi. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The TGF-β signaling pathway is a metazoan-specific intercellular signaling pathway known to be important in many developmental and cellular processes in a wide variety of animals. We investigated the complexity and possible functions of this pathway in a
Kevin Pang +3 more
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