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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having body tissues derived from only two germ layers, the endoderm and the ectoderm, as in the cnidarians.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In biology, having two germinal layers, endoblastic and ectoblastic, or a two-layered blastoderm: correlated with monoblastic and triploblastic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Biol.) Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective biology Having two embryonic germ layers (the ectoderm and the endoderm)

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Examples

  • Surprisingly complex T-box gene complement in diploblastic metazoans

    As Expected 2008

  • Our analyses show unexpected complexity of the T-box gene family in the diploblastic animals, which is consistent with other investigations in these animal groups.

    As Expected 2008

  • Our analyses show unexpected complexity of the T-box gene family in the diploblastic animals, which is consistent with other investigations in these animal groups.

    All These Different Creatures are Variations of the Same Theme 2008

  • "Because all three main clades of bilaterian animals express a let-7 RNA that is temporally regulated, but cnidarian, poriferan and all non-animal species that we analysed do not express a detectable let-7 RNA, we propose that the gene evolved after the divergence of diploblastic and bilaterian animals"

    Teach the Controversy James F. McGrath 2008

  • If you take a look at animal phylogeny, an important group are the diploblastic phyla, the cnidarians and ctenophores.

    Jellyfish lack true Hox genes! - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • I was under the opinion that ctenophores differed from cniderians because of the presence of a third layer; perhaps not a true mesoderm but not diploblastic in the same sense that cniderians are.

    Jellyfish lack true Hox genes! - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • If you take a look at animal phylogeny, an important group are the diploblastic phyla, the cnidarians and ctenophores.

    The Panda's Thumb: May 2006 Archives 2006

  • Vertebrates, are to be traced back to certain ectodermal pits in the diploblastic ancestor comparable to the sub-genital pits of the

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • Miller DJ (1992) Genomes of diploblastic organisms contain homeoboxes: sequence of eveC, an even-skipped homologue from the cnidarian Acropora formosa.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Hobmayer B, Rentzsch F, Kuhn K, Happel CM, von Laue CC, et al. (2000) WNT signalling molecules act in axis formation in the diploblastic metazoan Hydra.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Pascal Lapébie et al. 2009

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