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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
"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
In most phyla of fungi, tiny holes in the septa allow for the rapid flow of nutrients and small molecules from cell to cell along the hypha.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The first included the Protozoa, the second the Cœlenterata, the third the other five phyla, distinguished by the possession of a third layer, the mesoderm, and a "blood-lymph" cavity enclosed therein.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
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