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The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, resolving debates about their origins and anatomy. A research team from the Nanj ...

Soil microorganisms including nematode, microarthropods, micro arthropod, tardigrade, and rotifers a soil sample, soil fungus and bacteria on a regenerative farm in compost under the microscope in ...

The soil under our feet is teeming with mysterious life forms – possibly more than any other habitat on Earth. Scientists have now identified a whole new phylum of bacteria, which is abundant and ...

The phylum of animals comprises more than 30 phylum ... represents a transitional form between free-living, jawed rotifers and jawless, endoparasitic ­acanthocephalans, bridging an evolutionary ...

Historically classified as a distinct animal phylum, their highly specialized ... (flatworms), Priapulida (penis worms), or Rotifera (wheel animals). However, molecular phylogenetic analyses ...

The group was long regarded as a distinct phylum, and its evolutionary position ... penis worms and rotifers) on the basis of conflicting studies of physical features 2. Molecular studies have ...

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Biologists have now discovered a widespread and relatively abundant bacterial phylum, named CSP1-3, in deep soils and evaluated its phylogeny, ecology, metabolism, and evolutionary history. “The ...