Sponges, ctenophores, placozoans, and cnidarians have key evolutionary significance in
that they bracket the time interval during which organized animal tissues were first …

We consider a two-dimensional cellular vertex model, modeling the mechanics of epithelial
tissues. The energy of a planar configuration penalizes deviations in each cell from a …

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. All Placozoa …

The phylum Placozoa remains one of the least explored among early-branching metazoan
lineages. For over 130 years, this phylum had been represented by the single species …

Эволюционная ветвь Пластинчатых (Placozoa) имеет большое значение для
понимания происхождения и эволюции Metazoa. Представители типа Placozoa …

The present study was performed to assess Cd, Pb, and Hg contaminations and human
health risk in the warty crab Eriphia verrucosa (Forskål, 1775) in Akliman shores of Sinop …