Genome assembly of the acoel flatworm Symsagittifera roscoffensis, a model for research on body plan evolution and photosymbiosis. 

    Martínez Serra, Pedro; Ustyantsev, Kirill; Biryukov. Mikhail; Mouton, Stijn; Glasenburg, Liza; Sprecher, Simon G.; Bailly, Xavier; Berezikov, Eugene (2023-04-24)

    Symsagittifera roscoffensis is a well-known member of the order Acoela that lives in symbiosis with the algae Tetraselmis convolutae during its adult stage. Its natural habitat is the eastern coast of the Atlantic, where ...

    Posterior regeneration in Isodiametra pulchra (Acoela, Acoelomorpha) 

    Perea Atienza, Elena; Botta, Maria; Salvenmoser, Willi; Gschwentner, Robert; Egger, Bernhard; Kristof, Alen; Martínez Serra, Pedro; Achatz, Johannes Georg (2019-07-24)

    Introduction Regeneration is a widespread phenomenon in the animal kingdom, but the capacity to restore damaged or missing tissue varies greatly between different phyla and even within the same phylum. However, the distantly ...

    The nervous system of Isodiametra pulchra (Acoela) with a discussion on the neuroanatomy of the Xenacoelomorpha and its evolutionary implications 

    Achatz, Johannes Georg; Martínez Serra, Pedro (2016-01-19)

    Acoels are microscopic marine worms that have become the focus of renewed debate and research due to their placement at the base of the Bilateria by molecular phylogenies. To date, Isodiametra pulchra is the most promising ...

    The nervous system of Xenacoelomorpha: a genomic perspective 

    Perea-Atienza, Elena; Gavilán, Brenda; Chiodin, Marta; Abril Ferrando, Josep Francesc, 1970-; Hoff, Katharina J.; Poustka, Albert J.; Martínez Serra, Pedro (2023-01-27)

    Xenacoelomorpha is, most probably, a monophyletic group that includes three clades: Acoela, Nemertodermatida and Xenoturbellida. The group still has contentious phylogenetic affinities; though most authors place it as the ...