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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |