Multiple surveys employing a new sample-processing protocol reveal the genetic diversity of placozoans in Japan

The most primitive metazoan animals, the placozoans, show high sensitivity to increasing ocean temperatures and acidities

(2017) Dáša Schleicherová et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Cryptic diversity in the Japanese mantis shrimp Oratosquilla oratoria (Crustacea: Squillidae): Allopatric diversification, secondary contact and hybridization

(2017) Jiao Cheng et al.   Scientific Reports

Genetic diversity and population structure ofHyporhamphus sajori(Beloniformes: Hemiramphidae) inferred from mtDNA control region and msDNA markers

(2016) H. J. Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Extracting phylogenetic signal and accounting for bias in whole-genome data sets supports the Ctenophora as sister to remaining Metazoa

(2015) Marek L. Borowiec et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Employing Phylogenomics to Resolve the Relationships among Cnidarians, Ctenophores, Sponges, Placozoans, and Bilaterians

(2015) N. V. Whelan et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Global Habitat Suitability and Ecological Niche Separation in the Phylum Placozoa

(2015) Omid Paknia et al.   PLoS One

Coordinated Feeding Behavior in Trichoplax, an Animal without Synapses

(2015) Carolyn L. Smith et al.   PLoS One

Genomic data do not support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals

(2015) Davide Pisani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Geochemistry of two shallow CO2 seeps in Shikine Island (Japan) and their potential for ocean acidification research

(2015) Sylvain Agostini et al.   Regional Studies in Marine Science

Novel Cell Types, Neurosecretory Cells, and Body Plan of the Early-Diverging Metazoan Trichoplax adhaerens

(2014) Carolyn L. Smith et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems

(2014) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   NATURE

Phylogeography of the Brackish Water ClamCorbicula japonicaAround the Japanese Archipelago Inferred from Mitochondrial COII Gene Sequences

(2014) Mitsuya Yamada et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Survey of the Japanese Coast Reveals Abundant Placozoan Populations in the Northern Pacific Ocean

(2014) Hiroaki Nakano   Scientific Reports

Global Diversity of the Placozoa

(2013) Michael Eitel et al.   PLoS One

Mitochondrial Genome of a Japanese Placozoan

(2012) Hideyuki Miyazawa et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Ultrastructural analyses support different morphological lineages in the phylum placozoa Grell, 1971

(2011) Loretta Guidi et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

New Insights into Placozoan Sexual Reproduction and Development

(2011) Michael Eitel et al.   PLoS One

The phylogeography of the Placozoa suggests a taxon-rich phylum in tropical and subtropical waters

(2010) M. EITEL et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Contrasting genetic structure of two Pacific Hymeniacidon species

(2008) Sayumi Hoshino et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Phylogenetic relationship of two Mola sunfishes (Tetraodontiformes: Molidae) occurring around the coast of Japan, with notes on their geographical distribution and morphological characteristics

(2008) Yukiko Yoshita et al.   ICHTHYOLOGICAL RESEARCH