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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
It is believed that most of the animal phyla in existence today had their origins during this time, often referred to as the Cambrian explosion.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
In spite of their high development in past ages the Lycopods, recent and fossil, constitute, on the whole, a homogeneous group, and there is little at present to connect them with other phyla.
From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
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