Trichoplax ’s simple body should have made an ideal study subject. But for a long time, none of the scopes he built could capture it: The animal kept wriggling out of view or off the slide.

Trichoplax is from an ancient lineage and brings significant insights to understanding how animal life evolved from the common ancestor 600 million years ago.

Birefringent granules are visible in some specimens of Trichoplax adhaerens (phylum Placozoa) viewed under a microscope fitted with crossed polarizing filters. These granules lie in a ring around the ...

Genome sequencing of arguably the simplest known animal, Trichoplax adhaerens, uncovered a rich array of transcription factor and signalling pathway genes. Although the existence of such genes ...

After all, such coordination usually requires neurons and muscles — and Trichoplax has neither. Prakash later teamed up with Matthew Storm Bull, then his graduate student at Stanford University, to ...

The hypoxia-inducible transcription factor pathway regulates oxygen sensing in the simplest animal, Trichoplax adhaerens. EMBO reports, 2010; DOI: 10.1038/embor.2010.170 Kalle T Rytkönen, Jay F ...

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"Trichoplax shares over 80 percent of its genes with humans," said Dellaporta. "The Trichoplax genome will serve as a type of Rosetta Stone for understanding the origins of animal-specific pathways." ...

Trichoplax adhaerans (or Trix, as the researchers call it) is found worldwide, crawling capably across shallow seafloors on a belly covered in hairlike cilia, and feeding on algae.

Baker, M. Trichoplax, the simplest known animal, contains an estrogen-related receptor: Implications for the evolution of vertebrate and invertebrate estrogen receptors. Nat Prec (2008). https ...

The Trichoplax genome will serve as a type of "Rosetta Stone" for understanding the origins of animal-specific pathways." Source: Yale University ...

“ Trichoplax shares over 80 percent of its genes with humans,” said Dellaporta. “We are exited to find that Trichoplax contains shared pathways and defined regulatory sequences that link these most ...