- "shedding" + ζῷον (zôion) "animal". The most
notable characteristic shared by
ecdysozoans is a three-layered
cuticle (four in Tardigrada)
composed of
organic material...
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studies may
eventually reveal how they
miniaturised themselves from
larger ecdysozoans.
Tardigrades lack
several of the Hox
genes found in arthropods, and a...
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digestive tract development is more varied.
Protostomia includes the
ecdysozoans and spiralians, as well as the
extinct Kimberella.
Together with the...
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proposed to be a stem-group
ecdysozoan, due to
lacking the
radial pharygneal armature that
characterises modern ecdysozoans,
including priapulids. Hou...
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their shared trait of ecdysis,
growth by moulting,
Among the
largest ecdysozoan phyla are the
arthropods and the nematodes. The rest of the protostomes...
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heavily calcified plates.
These plates are not moulted; however, like all
ecdysozoans, the
barnacle moults its cuticle. Most
barnacles are hermaphroditic,...
- S2CID 85821717. McMenamin, M.A.S (2003), "Spriggina is a
trilobitoid ecdysozoan" (abstract),
Abstracts with Programs, 35 (6): 105,
archived from the original...
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Maximilian J. Telford;
Davide Pisani; Mark Blaxter;
Dennis V.
Lavrov (2010). "
Ecdysozoan Mitogenomics:
Evidence for a
Common Origin of the
Legged Invertebrates...
- has
since been
determined to
belong to a
protostome group called the
ecdysozoans.
Fossils of the
species were
first discovered in the
Kuanchuanpu Formation...
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Scalidophora is a
group of
marine pseudocoelomate ecdysozoans that was
proposed on
morphological grounds to
unite three phyla: the Kinorhyncha, the Priapulida...
