They are just the simplest, barest kind of metazoan we can find now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panda's Thumb: November 2005 Archives] Reference

I think this is very subjective; I was quite happy with Merriam Webster's definition of "metazoan," for example.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: COELOM.] Reference

Continue reading “No metazoan is an island”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panda's Thumb: PZ Myers Archives] Reference

No metazoan is an island is the next entry in this blog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dean Kenyon: a young-earth creation scientist who was later relabeled an intelligent design proponent - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Hey, I can't do comparative metazoan genomics all the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thanks, Erich] Reference

No metazoan is an island was the previous entry in this blog.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Songs From the Science Frontier" - YOU can help kids get excited about science! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Martindale MQ 2005 The evolution of metazoan axial properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [A few recent papers... - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

A signature of a radiation in metazoan evolution - The Panda's Thumb.    From Wordnik.com.  [A signature of a radiation in metazoan evolution - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Proterozoic modular biomineralized metazoan from the Nama Group, Namibia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cambrian as an evolutionary exemplar - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Thin lines represent the inferred metazoan phylogeny based on fossil data.    From Wordnik.com.  [A signature of a radiation in metazoan evolution - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Orthodox evolution is agnostic on how far back 'key metazoan molecules' date.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another predictable argument against front-loading] Reference

Continue reading A signature of a radiation in metazoan evolution on Pharyngula.    From Wordnik.com.  [A signature of a radiation in metazoan evolution - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The cells of a metazoan contain the same DNA yet there are many different kinds of cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memory Hole] Reference

Being multicellular rather than colonial is the character that generally defines metazoan animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Individuals, societies, and the classification of organisms] Reference

And if the metazoan LCA isn't rewinding far enough for you, convergence goes even further than that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Convergence] Reference

This is also a problem when cloning metazoan cells, possibly implying a deep evolutionary connection.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tetrahymena Puzzle] Reference

Dashed lines represent an amalgam of three conservative estimates of the inferred metazoan phylogeny.    From Wordnik.com.  [A signature of a radiation in metazoan evolution - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

We now have a draft of the sea anemone genome, and it is revealing tantalizing details of metazoan evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panda's Thumb: July 2007 Archives] Reference

Re “I sometimes find this metazoan stuff unlikely, counterintuitive and just plain messy and unnecessary.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Evolution: It's all in the testes - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

As Mike pointed out one can remove H1 from a particular metazoan and retain viability for that particular organism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Different Perspective on Irreducible Complexity] Reference

Skeletonization as made possible new bauplans that very much likely resulted in the formation of new metazoan phyla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Steve and end of the Cambrian Explosion as we know it (part 1) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Since then, the choanoflagellate lineage may have lost some essential genes needed to move toward metazoan evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Animal Toolkit in a Single-Celled Organism] Reference

Standard evolutionary theory starts with the observation that every metazoan starts as a single cell: a fertilized egg.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sociological Phenomenon] Reference

Almost every metazoan phylum with hard parts, and many that lack hard parts, made its first appearance in the Cambrian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continuation…] Reference

Not to mention all those beautifully useful bacteria that live within our metazoan cells and which we call mitochondria.    From Wordnik.com.  [No metazoan is an island - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

It is a one-celled animal to begin with, and then a simple metazoan resembling the fresh-water hydra or a simple jellyfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Case Of Conscience]

The animal-like toolkit contained in these protists is so significant that some think these protists evolved from a metazoan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Teeth] Reference

They branched off early from the metazoan lineage, and they possess some sophisticated patterns of differentiation along the body axis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panda's Thumb: May 2006 Archives] Reference

Researchers identify cancer gene in ancestral metazoan.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Biological Clocks Control Cell Division in Bacteria] Reference

Figures S5 and S6 contain the protozoan and metazoan phylograms, respectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

PfGK and HsGK coding sequences were used as representatives of the protozoan and metazoan branches, respectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The elucidation of principles governing evolution of gene regulatory sequence is critical to the study of metazoan diversification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Saccharomyces cerevisiae, how this gene set is coordinately regulated in the larger and more complex metazoan genomes is not understood.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference