Protostomes

Word PROTOSTOMES
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Definitions and meanings of "Protostomes"

What do we mean by protostomes?

Any animal, of the taxon Protostomia, in which the mouth is derived from the embryonic blastopore

1. Any of the group of bilaterally symmetric animals whose major indentation while they are still tiny embryos ultimately becomes their anus (e.g. clams, squids and insects), as opposed to their mouth, as in all other complex animals ('deuterostomes'--e.g. sea cucumbers, sea urchins and humans). 2. A person who spends far too much time talking shit and shitting on other people's ideas. Urban Dictionary

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The word "protostomes" in example sentences

The first rendezvous is with chimpanzees 6m years ago, the 15th with the duck-billed platypus at 180m, and, not far behind (in genetic terms at least), come the protostomes circa 300m years ago. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For instance: They used protostomes while leaving the ambulacria out! ❋ Unknown (2007)

Any other reason to think, apart from this, that the common ancestor of protostomes and deuterostomes was itself a triploblast? ❋ Unknown (2005)

The specific acquisition of PsGEF by the last common ancestor of protostomes followed by its retention or loss in specific animal species during evolution demonstrates that there are some structural and / or functional features common between insect and lophotrochozoan nervous systems (for example, mushroom bodies), which are absent in all deuterostomes and cnidarians. ❋ Keigo Kohno And Tatsuhiko Kadowaki Nozomu Higuchi (2009)

In the other big (all right, bigger) branch of the animals, the protostomes, nodal seemed to be lacking. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Presumably the protostomes and deuterostomes are more closely related to each other than they are to cnidarians. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Wnt expression in epithelial layers is more widespread, since the lack of similar descriptions protostomes, invertebrate deuterostomes other non-bliaterians may result from a general lack of attention to The similarity of the complementary Wnt expression patterns in ❋ Pascal Lapébie Et Al. (2009)

If you include the protostomes, you include the ambulacria, for Hennig’s sake! ❋ Unknown (2007)

You know, I had taken you [to be one] of my species, but now [I see you] must in fact be a [protostome]; you definitely have an anus where your mouth should be. ❋ AKTT (2011)

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