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metazoan any multicellular animal of the group Metazoa: includes all animals except sponges How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In this letter, only microbial infections are discussed; metazoan invasion and infestations have been omitted. In metazoans, HSF normally resides in the cell in an inactive, monomeric form that is rapidly converted to an active, HSE-binding trimeric form after stress exposure. Their discovery of "what appears to be a new phylum of metazoans has to be the zoological highlight of the decade," asserts Simon Conway Morris of the University of Cambridge in England in a commentary accompanying the report in the Dec. |
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