For example, they have a microRNA that was previously only known to exist in echinoderms and acorn worms. Moreover, all of the animals analysed up to now from the new Xenacoelomorpha phylum have the ...

Using both approaches, significant inter-phylum HGT signal was detected in 811 out of the total 847 evaluated genomes, which suggests that inter-phylum HGT has been an important process in ...

A new study reaffirms that sponges are the oldest animal phylum – and restores the classical view of early animal evolution, which recent molecular analyses had challenged. Share: FULL STORY ...

New Phylum Sheds Light On Ancestor Of Animals, Humans Date: November 5, 2006 Source: University of Florida Summary: Genetic analysis of an obscure, worm-like creature retrieved from the depths of ...

Not cream or fruit or chocolate or custard. Nothing. Clearly this would be absurd. And this is why I am concerned. With the extraordinary claim of a new phylum should come great evidence, because the ...

We offer an alternative interpretation of the Kingdom Vendobionta as a monophyletic sister group to the Eumetazoa. We hypothesize that the Vendobionta are cnidarian-like organisms that lacked cnidae.

The phylum Fibrobacteres currently comprises one formal genus, Fibrobacter, and two cultured species, Fibrobacter succinogenes and Fibrobacter intestinalis, that are recognised as major bacterial ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth’s Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water quality. Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through ...

The Loricifera is a microscopic, sediment-dwelling marine invertebrate, with a head covered in over 200 spines and an abdomen with a protective shell - known as a lorica. Since it was first ...

The soil under our feet is teeming with mysterious life forms – possibly more than any other habitat on Earth. Scientists have now identified a whole new phylum of bacteria, which is abundant ...