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Ranjan said one field of research in particular has him excited -- phylogenetic microbiology, which uses genome analysis to reconstruct the blueprints of sulfur-using microorganisms believed to represent the oldest phyla on Earth.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2024
Flatworms and roundworms, two phyla with more than 20,000 species each, have no emoji at all.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2023
Of the nearly 600 genomes characterized, microbes represented 50 distinct phyla and 18 candidate phyla.
From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023
The bryophytes are divided into three phyla: the liverworts or Hepaticophyta, the hornworts or Anthocerotophyta, and the mosses or true Bryophyta.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
So too the explanation of radial symmetry and torsion of organs as due to a Pelmatozoic mode of life finds confirmation in many other phyla.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
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