Analyses of recently sequenced sponge, cnidarian, placozoan, and choanoflagellate
genomes have revealed that most transcription factor (TF) classes and families expressed …

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 …

The ability to regenerate missing body parts exists throughout the animal kingdom.
Positional information is crucial for regeneration, but how it is harboured and used by …

For more than a century, the origin of metazoan animals has been debated. One aspect of
this debate has been centered on what the hypothetical “urmetazoon” bauplan might have …

The neighbourhoods of cytochrome P450 (CYP) genes in deuterostome genomes, as well
as those of the cnidarians Nematostella vectensis and Acropora digitifera and the placozoan …

Many of the eukaryotic phylogenomic analyses published to date were based on alignments
of hundreds to thousands of genes. Frequently, in such analyses, the most realistic …

Dickinsonia is one of the most recognizable forms in the Ediacaran fauna, but its
phylogenetic position has been contentious, and it has been placed in almost every …

Placozoans are a phylum of nonbilaterian marine animals currently represented by a single
described species, Trichoplax adhaerens, Schulze 1883. Placozoans arguably show the …

Background The much-debated phylogenetic relationships of the five early branching
metazoan lineages (Bilateria, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Placozoa and Porifera) are of …

The phylum Placozoa officially consists of only a single described species, Trichoplax
adhaerens, although several lineages can be separated by molecular markers …