Leo W. Buss

Leo W. Buss (born 1953), evolutionary biologist.

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Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus

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Buss, L.W. & Seilacher, A. 1994. The Phylum Vendobionta: A Sister Group of the Eumetazoa? Paleobiology 20(1): 1–4. JSTOR . Reference page.

Dellaporta, S.L., Xu, A., Sagasser, S., Jakob, W., Moreno, M.A., Buss, L.W. & Schierwater, B. 2006. Mitochondrial genome of Trichoplax adhaerens supports Placozoa as the basal lower metazoan phylum. PNAS 103(23): 8751–8756. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0602076103 . PDF Reference page.
Signorovitch, A.Y., Dellaporta, S.L. & Buss, L.W. 2006. Caribbean placozoan phylogeography. Biological Bulletin 211(2): 149–156. DOI: 10.2307/4134589 . Reference page.
Signorovitch, A.Y., Buss, L.W. & Dellaporta, S.L. 2007. Comparative Genomics of Large Mitochondria in Placozoans. PLoS Genetics 3(1): e13. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030013 . Reference page.
Srivastava, M., Begovic, E., Chapman, J., Putnam, N.H., Hellsten, U., Kawashima, T., Kuo, A., Mitros, T., Salamov, A., Carpenter, M.L., Signorovitch, A.Y., Moreno, M.A., Kamm, K., Grimwood, J., Schmutz, J., Shapiro, H., Grigoriev, I.V., Buss, L.W., Schierwater, B., Dellaporta, S.L. & Rokhsar, D.S. 2008. The Trichoplax genome and the nature of placozoans. Nature 454: 955–960. DOI: 10.1038/nature07191 . Reference page.