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Coherent directed movement toward food modeled in Trichoplax, a ciliated animal lacking a nervous system

Trichoplax adhaerens is a small, ciliated marine animal that glides on surfaces grazing upon algae, which it digests externally. It has no muscles or nervous system and only six cell types, all but two of which are embedded in its epithelium. The epithelial cells are joined by apical adherens juncti...

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Autores principales: Smith, Carolyn L., Reese, Thomas S., Govezensky, Tzipe, Barrio, Rafael A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6500112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30979806
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1815655116