The textbook view of cell division terminates with the final separation of the two daughter
cells in the process called abscission. However, in contrast to this classical view, a variety of …

Few topics in geobiology have been as extensively debated as the role of Earth's
oxygenation in controlling when and why animals emerged and diversified. All currently …

Mycorrhizal fungi are mutualists that play crucial roles in nutrient acquisition in terrestrial
ecosystems. Mycorrhizal symbioses arose repeatedly across multiple lineages of …

Animals and fungi have radically distinct morphologies, yet both evolved within the same
eukaryotic supergroup: Opisthokonta,. Here we reconstructed the trajectory of genetic …

Multicellular filamentous fungi have septal pores that allow cytoplasmic exchange, and thus
connectivity, between neighboring cells in the filament. Hyphal wounding and other stress …

Compared to multicellular fungi and unicellular yeasts, unicellular fungi with free-living
flagellated stages (zoospores) remain poorly known and their phylogenetic position is often …

The evolution of complex multicellularity has been one of the major transitions in the history
of life. In contrast to simple multicellular aggregates of cells, it has evolved only in a handful …

Atmospheric oxygen is thought to have played a vital role in the evolution of large, complex
multicellular organisms. Challenging the prevailing theory, we show that the transition from …

The question of how phenotypic and genomic complexity are inter‐related and how they are
shaped through evolution is a central question in biology that historically has been …

Hyphae represent a hallmark structure of multicellular fungi. The evolutionary origins of
hyphae and of the underlying genes are, however, hardly known. By systematically …