Recent Posts Tagged With 'trichoplax'

• New tree of animal suggests nervous system evolved only once in animal history

  Posted on Tuesday April 21st, 2009 at 17:17 in tree of life, nervous system, headline, sponges, hox, ctenophores, evo devo, cnidaria, bilateria, bernd schierwater, placozoa, trichoplax

  Scientists from France,Germany and Canada have recently put forward a new tree of life based on the most comprehensive phylogenomics study to date ,investigating 128 genes from a total of 55 species – including nine poriferans, eight cnidarians, t...

• Sponges regain their tag of most primitive animal on Earth

  Posted on Saturday April 11th, 2009 at 12:49 in genomics, What's New, genome, headline, charles darwin, origin of species, sponges, evo devo, amphimedon, bernd schierwater, trichoplax, cassey dunn

  There was a mad rush to get to the base of animal tree of life in the past twelve months, in order to establish most primitive animal on our planet, with many phylogenomics studies contradicting each other. In April 2008, Cassey dunn et el published ...

• New tree of life divides diploblastic and triploblastic animals

  Posted on Sunday February 1st, 2009 at 17:09 in tree of life, headline, ancestor, sponges, hox, ctenophores, cnidarians, evo devo, primitive., bernd schierwater, placozoa, trichoplax

  New study conducted by Schierwater, B. et al. have shown that the Triploblastic bilaterians and diploblastic animals ( Placozoa,Sponges,Ctenophores and Cnidarians) animals , probably separated very early, at the very beginning of animal evolution and...

• Meet the most primitive animal group - Ctenophores

  Posted on Monday January 19th, 2009 at 17:30 in headline, invasion, black sea, sponges, hox, ctenophores, martindale, evo devo, comb jellies, mnemiopsis leidyi, kevin pang, trichoplax

  A recent phylogenomics study carried out by Cassey Dunn and colleagues placed Ctenophores ( comb jellies) at the base of metazoan tree , meaning a place much lower than phylas occupied by more morphologically simple animals like Porifera ( sponges ) ...

• Origin and evolution of microRNAs

  Posted on Monday October 27th, 2008 at 09:50 in Evolution, origin, headline, sponge, pasha, hairpin, rnai, evo devo, dicer, amphimedon, micro rna, bernard m. degnan

  Gene silencing through RNA interference (RNAi) pathway is a well known phenomenon ,where in long double stranded is processed into small interfering RNAs and which in turn silence the genes in sequence specific manner.These micro RNAs are pretty much...

• Rosetta stone for understanding evolution : Trichoplax adhaerens

  Posted on Wednesday September 3rd, 2008 at 08:44 in genome, sequence, rosetta stone, evo devo, trichoplax adherens, mansi srivatsava, trichoplax

  Yale molecular and evolutionary biologists in collaboration with Department of Energy scientists produced the full genome sequence of Trichoplax, one of nature’s most primitive multicellular organisms, providing a new insight into the evolution...

• Functional equivalence of proteins among animals

  Posted on Saturday August 30th, 2008 at 06:00 in Evolution, proteins, eye, headline, sponges, ctenophores, evo devo, nematostella, trichoplax, functional similarity, homologs, mcgginis

  Homologous proteins from primitive species can functionally substitute for thier modern counterpart : One of the well known and widely accepted fact about evolution is theory of common descent stated by Charles Darwin, which states that that all orga...

• Early Antennapedia gene Family : Evidence from Trichoplax genome

  Posted on Saturday August 23rd, 2008 at 04:04 in What's New, headline, hox, evo devo, genome sequence, amphimedon, bernd schierwater, para hox, nematostella, placozoa, extended hox, mansi srivatsava

  Homeodomain containing transcription factors are vital for proper development and differentiation in animals,plants and fungi. This 60 amino acid conserved DNA binding motif is found in six different class of proteins: ANTP, PRD, POU, LIM, SIX and TA...