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SUBMITTER: Schierwater B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2631068 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schierwater Bernd B Eitel Michael M Jakob Wolfgang W Osigus Hans-Jürgen HJ Hadrys Heike H Dellaporta Stephen L SL Kolokotronis Sergios-Orestis SO Desalle Rob R
PLoS biology 20090101 1
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 been. The morphologically most simply organized metazoan animal, the placozoan Trichoplax adhaerens, resembles an intriguing model for one of several "urmetazoon" hypotheses: the placula hypothesis. Clear support for a basal position of Placozoa would aid in resolving several key issues of metazoan-specific inventions (incl ...[more]