“Salps actually, this will sound a little odd, they’re our cousins. They are very simple members of the phylum chordata,” said Coastal Carolina University marine science professor Juliana Hardin ...

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The outgroups included two annelids, Owenia [12 chromosomes] and Paraescarpia [14], plus the very distant chordate, Branchiostoma [19] (but the tunicate, Oikopleura has 6). Do the authors not ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new phylum of microbes, CSP1-3, has been discovered in the deep soil of Earth's Critical Zone, which plays a crucial role in water purification. These microbes ...

Mammals are a quite well known group, however estimates for the numbers of described species still vary considerably, ranging from 4 300 in Biodiversity: the UK Action Plan (Anon. 1994), through 4 630 ...