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When the team examined animal genomes more broadly, they found related enzymes in more than 66 species spanning nine different phyla.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Flatworms and roundworms, two phyla with more than 20,000 species each, have no emoji at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
Of the nearly 600 genomes characterized, microbes represented 50 distinct phyla and 18 candidate phyla.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023
As mentioned earlier, the cnidarians and ctenophores are animal phyla with true radial symmetry.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The determination to link together all the main phyla of the animal kingdom and to force them all into a single mould was common to evolutionary and pre-evolutionary transcendentalists alike.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
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