adhaerenshas been recognized as having a highly unusual body plan, and it has formally had the phylum of Placozoa (“flat animals”) to itself for almost half a century. Just one level more ...

The first placozoan species was described in 1883, and Placozoa remained a "phylum of one" until DNA-based research in the last 20 years revealed that it contains multiple lineages. Most ...

A new study reaffirms that sponges are the oldest animal phylum – and restores the classical ... and plate animals (Placozoa) together make up the so-called non-bilaterian animals.

Abstract: Placozoa are an enigmatic phylum of simple and microscopic marine metazoans and exciting models for metazoan development and evolution. Several studies noted the association of placozoans ...

It is the sole member of the phylum Placozoa and therefore represents a huge and mostly enigmatic branch of the tree of life. (By comparison, all vertebrates from mice to minnows to humans fit ...

Trichoplax adhaerens is one of the three species belonging to the the phylum Placozoa. T. adhaerens is capable of withstanding enormous doses of radiation and is highly resistant to cancer.