choanoflagellates

choanoflagellates

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• 网络领鞭虫；领鞭毛虫类；领鞭虫类

词形变化

复数：choanoflagellates  

英汉解释

n.	1. a minute single-celled organism found in water that has a flask-shaped body with a collar and a long whiplike extension used for swimming and feeding. Some species form colonies.

例句

If that's true, modern choanoflagellates give us a glimpse of how multicellular animals began.

如果真的是这样，那么，现代领鞭虫就给了我们一个窥探多细胞生物如何形成的机会。

"The brain is a lot more than a bunch of choanoflagellates, " he says.

他说：“大脑的分枝可比领鞭虫多得多。”

"The choanoflagellates have a lot of precursors for things we thought were only present in animals, " says Fasshauer.

法绍尔说：“领鞭虫具有大量我们原以为仅存于动物体内的初始成分”。