The origin of metazoan multicellularity: a potential microbial black swan event

I Ruiz-Trillo, K Kin, E Casacuberta - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The emergence of animals from their unicellular ancestors is a major evolutionary event.
Thanks to the study of diverse close unicellular relatives of animals, we now have a better …

Diversity of 'simple'multicellular eukaryotes: 45 independent cases and six types of multicellularity

Ł Lamża - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Multicellularity evolved multiple times in the history of life, with most reviewers agreeing that
it appeared at least 20 times in eukaryotes. However, a specific list of multicellular …

[HTML][HTML] Divergent genomic trajectories predate the origin of animals and fungi

E Ocaña-Pallarès, TA Williams, D López-Escardó… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Animals and fungi have radically distinct morphologies, yet both evolved within the same
eukaryotic supergroup: Opisthokonta,. Here we reconstructed the trajectory of genetic …

Cellularization across eukaryotes: Conserved mechanisms and novel strategies

B McCartney, O Dudin - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Many eukaryotes form multinucleated cells during their development. Some cells persist as
such during their lifetime, others choose to cleave each nucleus individually using a …

The premetazoan ancestry of the synaptic toolkit and appearance of first neurons

J Colgren, P Burkhardt - Essays in Biochemistry, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Neurons, especially when coupled with muscles, allow animals to interact with and navigate
through their environment in ways unique to life on earth. Found in all major animal lineages …

The Hippo kinase cascade regulates a contractile cell behavior and cell density in a close unicellular relative of animals

JE Phillips, D Pan - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
The genomes of close unicellular relatives of animals encode orthologs of many genes that
regulate animal development. However, little is known about the function of such genes in …

Assembling a Hippo: the evolutionary emergence of an animal developmental signaling pathway

JE Phillips, Y Zheng, D Pan - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Decades of work in developmental genetics has given us a deep mechanistic understanding
of the fundamental signaling pathways underlying animal development. However, little is …

The history of Sal**oeca rosetta as a model for reconstructing animal origins

DS Booth, N King - Current topics in developmental biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Choanoflagellates, the closest living relatives of animals, have the potential to reveal the
genetic and cell biological foundations of complex multicellular development in animals …

The evolution of multicellularity and cell differentiation symposium: bridging evolutionary cell biology and computational modelling using emerging model systems

N Ros-Rocher - Biology Open, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT 'The evolution of multicellularity and cell differentiation'symposium, organized
as part of the EuroEvoDevo 2024 meeting on June 25-28th in Helsinki (Finland), addressed …

Evolution: divergent trajectories predate the origins of animals and fungi

D Jirsová, JG Wideman - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Animals, fungi, and their closest protist relatives comprise the clade Opisthokonta. Although
they are comparatively closely related, animals and fungi have diverged greatly from one …