The origin of animals: an ancestral reconstruction of the unicellular-to-multicellular transition

N Ros-Rocher, A Pérez-Posada, MM Leger… - Open …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Ichthyosporea: a window into the origin of animals

V Shabardina, JE Dharamshi, PS Ara, M Antó… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Ichthyosporea is an underexplored group of unicellular eukaryotes closely related to
animals. Thanks to their phylogenetic position, genomic content, and development through a …

Insights into the origin of metazoan multicellularity from predatory unicellular relatives of animals

DV Tikhonenkov, E Hehenberger, AS Esaulov… - BMC biology, 2020 - Springer
Background The origin of animals from their unicellular ancestor was one of the most
important events in evolutionary history, but the nature and the order of events leading up to …

Unicellular origin of the animal microRNA machinery

J Bråte, RS Neumann, B Fromm, AAB Haraldsen… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
The emergence of multicellular animals was associated with an increase in phenotypic
complexity and with the acquisition of spatial cell differentiation and embryonic …

Towards understanding the origin of animal development

I Ruiz-Trillo, A de Mendoza - Development, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
Almost all animals undergo embryonic development, going from a single-celled zygote to a
complex multicellular adult. We know that the patterning and morphogenetic processes …

Decoupling of nuclear division cycles and cell size during the coenocytic growth of the ichthyosporean Sphaeroforma arctica

A Ondracka, O Dudin, I Ruiz-Trillo - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Coordination of the cell division cycle with the growth of the cell is critical to achieve cell size
homeostasis [1]. Mechanisms coupling the cell division cycle with cell growth have been …

[图书][B] Invertebrate zoology: A tree of life approach

B Schierwater, R DeSalle - 2021 - api.taylorfrancis.com
ABSTRACT Invertebrate Zoology: A Tree of Life Approach is a comprehensive and
authoritative textbook adopting an explicitly phylogenetic organization. Most of the classical …

The single-celled ancestors of animals: a history of hypotheses

T Brunet, N King - The evolution of multicellularity, 2022 - library.oapen.org
Among the most important innovations in the history of life is the transition from single-celled
organisms to more complex, multicellular organisms. Multicellularity has evolved repeatedly …

Regulation of sedimentation rate shapes the evolution of multicellularity in a close unicellular relative of animals

O Dudin, S Wielgoss, AM New, I Ruiz-Trillo - PLoS biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Significant increases in sedimentation rate accompany the evolution of multicellularity.
These increases should lead to rapid changes in ecological distribution, thereby affecting …

Txikispora philomaios n. sp., ng, a micro‐eukaryotic pathogen of amphipods, reveals parasitism and hidden diversity in Class Filasterea

A Urrutia, K Mitsi, R Foster, S Ross… - Journal of Eukaryotic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study provides a morphological, ultrastructural, and phylogenetic characterization of a
novel micro‐eukaryotic parasite (2.3–2.6 µm) infecting amphipod genera Echinogammarus …