Over 600 million years ago, animals evolved from a unicellular or colonial organism whose
cell (s) captured bacteria with a collar complex, a flagellum surrounded by a microvillar …

The first animals evolved from an unknown single-celled ancestor in the Precambrian
period. Recently, the identification and characterization of the genomic and cellular traits of …

A hallmark of metazoan evolution is the emergence of genomic mechanisms that implement
cell-type-specific functions. However, the evolution of metazoan cell types and their …

How animals evolved from a single-celled ancestor, transitioning from a unicellular lifestyle
to a coordinated multicellular entity, remains a fascinating question. Key events in this …

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 …

Choanoflagellates, the closest living relatives of animals, can provide unique insights into
the changes in gene content that preceded the origin of animals. However, only two …

Which genomic innovations underpinned the origin of multicellular animals is still an open
debate. Here, we investigate this question by reconstructing the genome architecture and …

The evolution of winged insects revolutionized terrestrial ecosystems and led to the largest
animal radiation on Earth. However, we still have an incomplete picture of the genomic …

Evolutionary profiling has been largely limited to the nucleotide level. Using consistent
proteomic methods, we quantified proteomic and phosphoproteomic layers in fibroblasts …

Regulated cellular aggregation is an essential process for development and healing in
many animal tissues. In some animals and a few distantly related unicellular species …