There are a significant number of words, phrases and acronyms that appear when talking about race and ethnicity which often change depending on the context of the conversation. Language is ...

The box jellyfish is often regarded as one of the most venomous creatures inhabiting the world’s oceans. Belonging to the class Cubozoa, these gelatinous sea creatures have captivated the attention of ...

The negative controls, including DNA extraction and PCR controls, showed for COI 50 reads (0.0003% of total reads) clustered into 14 OTUs, assigned to Arthropoda, Chordata, Ctenophora and ...

The study also found that ctenophores are the closest relatives of the first animals - and they can still be spotted in oceans and aquariums today. Biologists have spent years trying to find out ...

In the early 2000s, molecular data began to show an unexpected amount of genetic diversity in this “phylum of one” (Voigt et al., 2004; Signorovitch et al., 2007; Eitel et al., 2013). Ongoing 16S ...

Amoeboid cell types are fundamental to animal biology and broadly distributed across animal diversity, but their evolutionary origin is unclear. The closest living relatives of animals, the ...

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