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Coordinated Feeding Behavior in Trichoplax, an Animal without Synapses

Trichoplax is a small disk-shaped marine metazoan that adheres to substrates and locomotes by ciliary gliding. Despite having only six cell types and lacking synapses Trichoplax coordinates a complex sequence of behaviors culminating in external digestion of algae. We combine live cell imaging with...

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Publicado en:PLoS One
Main Authors: Smith, Carolyn L., Pivovarova, Natalia, Reese, Thomas S.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4558020/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26333190
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136098
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