All in all, this study strongly supports a model in which oxygen levels constrained body size evolution in trilobites—whose size evolution, along with that of other marine metazoans, has not ...

Abstract: Placozoa are an enigmatic phylum of simple and microscopic marine metazoans and exciting models for metazoan development and evolution. Several studies noted the association of placozoans ...

A ubiquitous but little-known marine organism, the choanoflagellate ... with the genes of multicellular animals, the so-called metazoans. The sequencing and analysis was performed by the ...

To find this out, the scientists went to the University Marine Biological Station ... At the moment, this is the smallest genome among all metazoans." -Natalya Bondarenko, Candidate of Biology ...

The Paper T. Omotezako et al., “DNA interference: DNA-induced gene silencing in the appendicularian Oikopleura dioica,” Proc R Soc B, 282:20150435, 2015. Accidental discovery Scientists often exploit ...

The tiny remains date from the Ediacaran, but appeared to share features with animal (more properly, metazoan) embryos, suggesting that metazoans were around for many millions of years ...