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"Our results will have a big impact on our picture of the developmental history of one of the oldest phyla on Earth," says Wörheide.
From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024
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
Currently, most biologists divide the animal kingdom into 35 to 40 phyla.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The group is an isolated one and shows no clear affinities with any of the great phyla.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
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