Tolerance of Placozoa for temperate climates: Evidence for known and new placozoan clades in the southern waters of Australia

• Bree A. Wright,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Chemistry, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8887-3193

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• Hans-Jürgen Osigus ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hans-Jürgen Osigus, Moritz J. Schmidt, Julian Ratcliffe, Kai Kamm

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Animal Ecology & Evolution, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany

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• Moritz J. Schmidt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hans-Jürgen Osigus, Moritz J. Schmidt, Julian Ratcliffe, Kai Kamm

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Animal Ecology & Evolution, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany

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• Julian Ratcliffe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hans-Jürgen Osigus, Moritz J. Schmidt, Julian Ratcliffe, Kai Kamm

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation La Trobe University Bioimaging Platform, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Kai Kamm ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hans-Jürgen Osigus, Moritz J. Schmidt, Julian Ratcliffe, Kai Kamm

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Animal Ecology & Evolution, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany

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• Gabriela C. Martinez-Ortiz ,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ GCM-O and MR authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, Victoria State Government, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Martina Rehn ,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ GCM-O and MR authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Marc Kvansakul ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: p.humbert@latrobe.edu.au (POH); bernado@trichoplax.com (BS); m.kvansakul@latrobe.edu.au (MK)

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Chemistry, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2639-2498

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• Bernd Schierwater ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: p.humbert@latrobe.edu.au (POH); bernado@trichoplax.com (BS); m.kvansakul@latrobe.edu.au (MK)

  Affiliation Institute of Animal Ecology & Evolution, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany

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• Patrick O. Humbert

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: p.humbert@latrobe.edu.au (POH); bernado@trichoplax.com (BS); m.kvansakul@latrobe.edu.au (MK)

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry & Chemistry, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Biochemistry & Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Clinical Pathology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1366-6691

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