Sentences with phrase «animal multicellularity»
But in living choanoflagellates, King believes researchers have a model organism to compare with animals and dissect the roots of animal multicellularity.
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«The study analysed the genome of these eight species and performed comparative analysis of animal genes important for signalling, neuronal and ionic conduction, epithelia, immunity and reproduction, which are the basic functions associated to multicellularity,» she adds.
[That] fits with the idea that multicellularity evolved separately [in plants and animals],» says plant geneticist Robert Martienssen of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.
The King lab at Berkeley has pioneered the exploration of the origins of multicellularity by looking at choanoflagellates for shared characteristics and behaviors conserved by evolution in animals.
The sponge genome confirms that sponges share much the same genetic tool kit for multicellularity as the rest of the animal kingdom.
January 7, 2016 Scientists find ancient mutation that contributed to the evolution of multicellular animals A single chance mutation about a billion years ago caused an ancient protein to evolve a new function essential for multicellularity in animals, according to new research co-led by a University of Chicago scientist.
One strong hint that bacteria may have prompted that ancient transition to multicellularity is that many of today's simplest animals are governed by microbial messages.