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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Upregulation of DNA repair genes and cell extrusion underpin the remarkable radiation resistance of Trichoplax adhaerens [PDF]
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 +2 more
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The Early Metazoan Trichoplax adhaerens Possesses a Functional O-GlcNAc System [PDF]
Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2015 Protein O-GlcNAcylation is a reversible post-translational signaling modification of nucleocytoplasmic proteins that is essential for embryonic development in bilateria. In a search for a reductionist model to study O-GlcNAc signaling, we discovered the presence of functional O-GlcNAc transferase (OGT), O-GlcNAcase (OGA), and nucleocytoplasmic protein ...
Daniel Mariappa +2 more
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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 +2 more
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Novel Cell Types, Neurosecretory Cells, and Body Plan of the Early-Diverging Metazoan Trichoplax adhaerens [PDF]
Current Biology, 2014 Trichoplax adhaerens is the best-known member of the phylum Placozoa, one of the earliest-diverging metazoan phyla. It is a small disk-shaped animal that glides on surfaces in warm oceans to feed on algae. Prior anatomical studies of Trichoplax revealed that it has a simple three-layered organization with four somatic cell types.We reinvestigate the ...
Carolyn L Smith +2 more
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The hypoxia‐inducible transcription factor pathway regulates oxygen sensing in the simplest animal, Trichoplax adhaerens [PDF]
EMBO Reports, 2011 The hypoxic response in humans is mediated by the hypoxia‐inducible transcription factor (HIF), for which prolyl hydroxylases (PHDs) act as oxygen‐sensing components. The evolutionary origins of the HIF system have been previously unclear. We demonstrate a functional HIF system in the simplest animal, Trichoplax
Christoph Loenarz +2 more
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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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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 performed by the enzyme MMACHC (HsCblC).
Krams C +8 more
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Differentiation of Crystal Cells, Gravity-Sensing Cells in the Placozoan Trichoplax adhaerens [PDF]
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021 Trichoplax adhaerens are simple animals with no nervous system, muscles or body axis. Nevertheless, Trichoplax demonstrate complex behaviors, including responses to the direction of the gravity vector.
Tatiana D. Mayorova
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Studying Placozoa WBR in the Simplest Metazoan Animal, Trichoplax adhaerens.
Methods Mol Biol, 2022 AbstractPlacozoans are a promising model system to study fundamental regeneration processes in a morphologically and genetically very simple animal. We here provide a brief introduction to the enigmatic Placozoa and summarize the state of the art of animal handling and experimental manipulation possibilities.
Osigus HJ +7 more
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