
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 12
Опубликована: Янв. 8, 2025
As the simplest free-living animal, Trichoplax adhaerens (Placozoa) is emerging as a powerful paradigm to decipher molecular and cellular bases of behavior, enabling integrative studies at all levels biological organization in context metazoan evolution parallel origins neural organization. However, progress this direction also depends on ability maintain long-term culture placozoans. Here, we report dynamic cultures over 11 years observations from starting clonal line, including 7 culturing under antibiotic (ampicillin) treatment. This study revealed very complex population dynamics, with seasonal oscillation least partial correlations solar radio emission flux magnetic field disturbance parameters. Notable, analysis distribution Fe2+ living animals not only its high abundance across most cells but asymmetric localizations unidentified cells, suggesting that these intracellular patterns might be coupled animal's bioenergetics. We hypothesize placozoans have magnetoreception, which can experimentally tested future studies. In sum, Trichoplax, particular, Placozoa, general, viewed prospective reference species traditional evolutionary system biology yet unexplored potential for planetary ecology space biomedicine.
Язык: Английский