Julia Merkel

Collecting and Culturing Kamptozoans for Regenerative Studies

Achim Meyer, Julia Merkel, Bernhard Lieb

Kamptozoa, also known as Entoprocta, are small aquatic filter-feeders that belong to the Lophotrochozoan superphylum, which also contains other acoelomate phyla including Annelida, Nemertea, and Mollusca. The study of Kamptozoa is thus of great interest to understand the early Lophotrochozoan evolution. Moreover, …

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The rheology and foamability of crystal-melt suspensions composed of triacylglycerols

Kim Mishra, Fabian Kämpf, Silas Ehrengruber, Julia Merkel et autres

effSFC into account. Foam formation by dynamically enhanced membrane foaming (DEMF) is performed directly after crystallization and reveals that depending on the CMS rheology and crystallite-, crystallite cluster- and crystal floc microstructure, a wide range of gas volume fractions between 0.05-0.6 are …

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Session 13. Commemorating Women's Suffrage in the Commonwealth

Wesley Chenault, Barbara Batson, Mari Julienne, Ted Delaney et autres

This session focuses on Virginia’s statewide commemoration of the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Virginia Museum of History & Culture and the Library of Virginia are the primary organizing bodies of the commemoration and are partnering with …

Bilirubin—A Possible Prognostic Mortality Marker for Patients with ECLS

Sebastian Bunte, Roland Walz, Julia Merkel, Carolin Torregroza et autres

Extracorporeal life support (ECLS) is a promising therapeutic option for patients with refractory cardiogenic shock. However, as the mortality rate still remains high, there is a need for early outcome parameters reflecting therapy success or futility. Therefore, we investigated whether liver enzyme …

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Novel and Conserved Features of the Hox Cluster of Entoprocta (Kamptozoa)

Julia Merkel, Andreas Wanninger, Bernhard Lieb

Hox genes are highly conserved developmental genes involved in the patterning of the anterior-posterior axis of nearly all metazoan animals. While Hox genes have been characterized for many bilaterians, several cryptic taxa, often comprising microscopic specimens, have hitherto been neglected. We here …

Phylogenomics of Lophotrochozoa with Consideration of Systematic Error

Kevin M. Kocot, Torsten H. Struck, Julia Merkel, Damien S. Waits et autres

Phylogenomic studies have improved understanding of deep metazoan phylogeny and show promise for resolving incongruences among analyses based on limited numbers of loci. One region of the animal tree that has been especially difficult to resolve, even with phylogenomic approaches, is relationships …

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Muscular anatomy of an entoproct creeping-type larva reveals extraordinary high complexity and potential shared characters with mollusks

Julia Merkel, Bernhard Lieb, Andreas Wanninger

BACKGROUND: Entoprocta (Kamptozoa) is an enigmatic, acoelomate, tentacle-bearing phylum with indirect development, either via a swimming- or a creeping-type larva and still debated phylogenetic position within Lophotrochozoa. Recent morphological and neuro-anatomical studies on the creeping-type larva support a close relationship of Entoprocta …

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Publication Reviews

Amy Mondt, Cassandra A. Schmitt, Erin Wolfe, Joshua D. Zimmerman et autres

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Publication Reviews

Christine Schmid Engels, Eric Fritzler, Jessica L. Wagner, Julia Merkel et autres

In February 2006, Pope Benedict XVI officially

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Spiral cleavage and early embryology of a loxosomatid entoproct and the usefulness of spiralian apical cross patterns for phylogenetic inferences

Julia Merkel, Tim Wollesen, Bernhard Lieb, Andreas Wanninger

BACKGROUND: Among the four major bilaterian clades, Deuterostomia, Acoelomorpha, Ecdysozoa, and Lophotrochozoa, the latter shows an astonishing diversity of bodyplans. While the largest lophotrochozoan assemblage, the Spiralia, which at least comprises Annelida, Mollusca, Entoprocta, Platyhelminthes, and Nemertea, show a spiral cleavage pattern, …

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Inherent Defeatism in Barry Hannah’s “The Agony of T. Bandini” and “Uncle High Lonesome”

Julia Merkel

William Faulkner’s themes and motifs are topical for the (literary) South to the present day, expressed by an inherent defeatism and structural pessimism. This reading of Barry Hannah’s short stories “The Agony of T. Bandini” and “Uncle High Lonesome” traces this heritage …