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Igor Duarte

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

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An ancient lysozyme in placozoans participates in acidic extracellular digestion

Henry Berndt, Igor Duarte, Urska Repnik, Michel A. Struwe, Mohammad Abukhalaf, Axel J. Scheidig, Andreas Tholey, Harald R. Gruber‐Vodicka, Matthias Leippe

This study identifies a functional lysozyme in placozoans, showing its role in acidic extracellular digestion and tracing its evolutionary origin to a bacterial horizontal gene transfer.

Communications Biology · Jan 6, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology