choanoflagellates

choanoflagellates

美 　英

• 網絡領鞭蟲；領鞭毛蟲類；領鞭蟲類

詞形變化

復數：choanoflagellates  

英漢解釋

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.

如果真的是這樣，那么，現代領鞭蟲就給了我們一個窺探多細胞生物如何形成的機會。

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

他說：“大腦的分枝可比領鞭蟲多得多。”

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

法紹爾說：“領鞭蟲具有大量我們原以為僅存于動物體內的初始成分”。