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Placozoa is a phylum of marine and free-living (non-parasitic) animals. They are simple blob-like animals without any body part or organ, and are merely aggregates of cells. Moving in water by ciliary motion, eating food by engulfment, reproducing by fission or budding, placozoans are described as "the simplest … See more
Trichoplax was discovered in 1883 by the German zoologist Franz Eilhard Schulze, in a seawater aquarium at the Zoological Institute in Graz, Austria. The generic name is derived from the classical Greek θρίξ (thrix), … See more
There is no convincing fossil record of the placozoa, although the Ediacaran biota (Precambrian, 550 million years ago) organism See more
Wikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license Placozoa: Current Biology - Cell Press
WebFeb 5, 2018 · What are Placozoa? To us, Placozoa are the most unique animals one can think of ( Figure 1 ). The bauplan of these always hungry creatures is by far the simplest of all animals — only some secondarily …
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The placozoan Trichoplax | Nature Methods
WebApr 12, 2024 · At 98 Mb, the Trichoplax genome is one of the smallest among all free-living animals, but it possesses a rich gene repertoire, with many of the gene families found in morphologically more complex...
Introduction to Placozoa - University of California …
WebPlacozoans are tiny, flat, round animals with four types of cells and no nervous system. They are very simple and mysterious, and their phylogenetic position is uncertain. Learn about their morphology, …
World Placozoa Database - Intro - World Register of Marine Species
Web5 days ago · Learn about the biology, history, and diversity of Placozoa, the simplest animal phylum with only one species, Trichoplax adhaerens. Explore the latest molecular and morphological data on placozoan phylogeny and discover the …
The enigmatic Placozoa part 1: Exploring evolutionary …
WebSep 1, 2021 · The phylum Placozoa presently harbors three formally described species, while several dozen “cryptic” species are yet awaiting their description. The phylogenetic position of placozoans has recently …
The Trichoplax genome and the nature of placozoans
WebAug 21, 2008 · Here we report the sequencing and analysis of the ∼ 98 million base pair nuclear genome of the placozoan Trichoplax adhaerens. Whole-genome phylogenetic analysis suggests that placozoans belong...
Frontiers | Phylogenomics and the first higher …
WebDec 8, 2022 · Placozoa is a phylum of simple, ameboid animals with high genetic diversity and cryptic species. This study uses nuclear genomic data to reconstruct the first phylogenomic tree and the first higher taxonomy …
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WebDevelopment. New animals may be produced via binary fission or budding. Budding creates multicellular flagellated “swarmers,” each of which becomes a new individual. Sexual reproduction may occur, in which …
Brief History of Placozoa | SpringerLink
WebApr 27, 2024 · Abstract. Placozoans are morphologically the simplest free-living animals. They represent a unique window of opportunities to understand both the origin of the animal organization and the rules of life for the system and synthetic biology of the future.
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