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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>Eukaryotic cell emerged as evolutionary algorithmic phase transition<br><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250421163507.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedaily.com/releases/2025</span><span class="invisible">/04/250421163507.htm</span></a><br><a href="https://press.uni-mainz.de/eukaryotic-cell-emerged-as-evolutionary-algorithmic-phase-transition/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">press.uni-mainz.de/eukaryotic-</span><span class="invisible">cell-emerged-as-evolutionary-algorithmic-phase-transition/</span></a><br><a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422968122" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422</span><span class="invisible">968122</span></a></p><p>* compromise: conserved process of gene growth vs. change in genetic regulation which incorporated noncoding sequences<br>* increase in cellular complexity occurred continuously<br>* in abrupt manner at critical point unlocked path toward multicellular organisms</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Eukaryotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eukaryotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhaseTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhaseTransition</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>[biological evolution] Whole-genome duplication drives long-term adaptation<br><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250326221649.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedaily.com/releases/2025</span><span class="invisible">/03/250326221649.htm</span></a><br><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43515443" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">3515443</span></a></p><p>Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment<br><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08689-6" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41586-025</span><span class="invisible">-08689-6</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/yeast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yeast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MolecularBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MolecularBiology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genetics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MolecularGenetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MolecularGenetics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adaptation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adaptation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genomics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenomeDuplication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenomeDuplication</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CellBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CellBiology</span></a></p>
CellBioNews<p><a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/3D" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3D</span></a> structure of the social <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/amoeba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amoeba</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/genome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genome</span></a> sheds light on the transition to <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/Dictyostelium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictyostelium</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/chromosomes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chromosomes</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/chromatin_looping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chromatin_looping</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/RNA_polymerase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RNA_polymerase</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-02-3d-social-amoeba-genome-transition.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-02-3d-socia</span><span class="invisible">l-amoeba-genome-transition.html</span></a></p>
CellBioNews<p><a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/3D" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3D</span></a> structure of the social <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/amoeba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amoeba</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/genome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genome</span></a> sheds light on the transition to <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/Dictyostelium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictyostelium</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/chromosomes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chromosomes</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/chromatin_looping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chromatin_looping</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/RNA_polymerase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RNA_polymerase</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-02-3d-social-amoeba-genome-transition.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-02-3d-socia</span><span class="invisible">l-amoeba-genome-transition.html</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Tiny microbe colonies communicate to coordinate their behavior <a href="https://www.uib.no/en/michaelsarscentre/175104/tiny-microbe-colonies-communicate-coordinate-their-behavior" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">uib.no/en/michaelsarscentre/17</span><span class="invisible">5104/tiny-microbe-colonies-communicate-coordinate-their-behavior</span></a></p><p>Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr7434" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv</span><span class="invisible">.adr7434</span></a></p><p>"A new study reveals evidence of electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/choanoflagellates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>choanoflagellates</span></a>, the closest living relatives of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a>. This elaborate example of cell communication offers key insights into the early <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> of animal <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a> and nervous systems."</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protists</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microbes</span></a></p>
Pawel Burkhardt<p>Thrilled to see <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/choanoflagellates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>choanoflagellates</span></a> on the cover of Science Advances 🤩. Our latest work "Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals" out now. Link: <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr7434" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv</span><span class="invisible">.adr7434</span></a> <br>Work supported by @MSarsCentre, @UiB, <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/neuron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neuron</span></a> <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a> 👏👏👏 Jeffrey Colgren</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Hourglass model of complex multicellularity found in brown algae <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-10-hourglass-complex-multicellularity-brown-algae.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-10-hourglas</span><span class="invisible">s-complex-multicellularity-brown-algae.html</span></a> paper: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08059-8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41586-024</span><span class="invisible">-08059-8</span></a> </p><p>"Complex <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a> evolved independently in various eukaryotic lineages, including <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plants</span></a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a>, and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algae</span></a>... According to the hourglass model of embryonic development, early and late stages of development exhibit morphological and molecular diversity, while a mid-embryonic phase remains highly conserved across species."</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>We are family: Tracing the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> of animals <a href="https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/evolution-of-multicelled-life" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">knowablemagazine.org/content/a</span><span class="invisible">rticle/living-world/2024/evolution-of-multicelled-life</span></a></p><p>"To understand the origins of muticelled life, researchers are studying a motley assortment of simpler animal relatives. The commonalities they’re unearthing offer a trove of clues about our mutual past... Researchers speculate that something major must have happened in the world to make teaming up such a good deal. It must be environmental, to a large degree" </p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protists</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microbes</span></a></p>
Matt Hodgkinson<p>"As seawater gets colder, it grows thicker. It’s basic physics — the density and viscosity of water molecules rises as the temperature drops. Under the conditions of Snowball Earth, the ocean would have been twice or even four times as viscous as it was before the planet froze over. Simpson wondered what it would have been like to be a microscopic organism in the ocean during Snowball Earth."</p><p><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-physics-of-cold-water-may-have-jump-started-complex-life-20240724/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">quantamagazine.org/the-physics</span><span class="invisible">-of-cold-water-may-have-jump-started-complex-life-20240724/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/BioPhysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BioPhysics</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SnowballEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SnowballEarth</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ComplexLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComplexLife</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Multicellularity</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EvolutionaryBiology</span></a></p>
Matt Willemsen<p>Snowball Earth’s Environmental Conditions Gave Multicellular Organisms Evolutionary Advantage<br><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/snowball-earth-multicellularity-13063.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sci.news/paleontology/snowball</span><span class="invisible">-earth-multicellularity-13063.html</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cryogenian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cryogenian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SnowballEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SnowballEarth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a></p>
katch wreck<p>"By testing a series of alternative—&amp; commonly debated—hypotheses, we demonstrate how <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a> was likely acquired differently in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eukaryotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eukaryotes</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prokaryotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prokaryotes</span></a> owing to selective differences on their size due to the biophysical &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metabolic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metabolic</span></a> regimes they inhabit: decreasing temperatures... instigated by the onset of glaciations generated selective pressures towards smaller sizes in organisms in the diffusive regime &amp; towards larger sizes in motile heterotrophs"</p><p><a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2767" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">royalsocietypublishing.org/doi</span><span class="invisible">/10.1098/rspb.2023.2767</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Macroalgae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Macroalgae</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genetics</span></a> study sheds light on how seaweed became multicellular<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-04-macroalgae-genetics-seaweed-multicellular.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-04-macroalg</span><span class="invisible">ae-genetics-seaweed-multicellular.html</span></a></p><p>Macroalgal deep <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/genomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genomics</span></a> illuminate multiple paths to aquatic, photosynthetic multicellularity <a href="https://www.cell.com/molecular-plant/fulltext/S1674-2052(24)00084-4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cell.com/molecular-plant/fullt</span><span class="invisible">ext/S1674-2052(24)00084-4</span></a> </p><p>"Three lineages of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algae</span></a> developed <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a> independently and during very different time periods by acquiring genes that enable cell adhesion, extracellular matrix formation, and cell differentiation"</p>
CellBioNews<p>Why <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/eukaryotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eukaryotes</span></a>, not <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a>, evolved complex <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/genomic_expansion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genomic_expansion</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyanobacteria</span></a></p><p><a href="https://asm.org/Articles/2024/March/Eukaryotes-Evolved-Multicellularity-Not-Bacteria" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">asm.org/Articles/2024/March/Eu</span><span class="invisible">karyotes-Evolved-Multicellularity-Not-Bacteria</span></a></p>
CellBioNews<p>Why <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/eukaryotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eukaryotes</span></a>, not <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a>, evolved complex <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/genomic_expansion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genomic_expansion</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyanobacteria</span></a></p><p><a href="https://asm.org/Articles/2024/March/Eukaryotes-Evolved-Multicellularity-Not-Bacteria" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">asm.org/Articles/2024/March/Eu</span><span class="invisible">karyotes-Evolved-Multicellularity-Not-Bacteria</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>A Multitalented Scientist Seeks the Origins of Multicellularity <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-multitalented-scientist-seeks-the-origins-of-multicellularity-20240221/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">quantamagazine.org/a-multitale</span><span class="invisible">nted-scientist-seeks-the-origins-of-multicellularity-20240221/</span></a></p><p>"The <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/geneticist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geneticist</span></a> Cassandra Extavour became the first Black woman to receive tenure in the biological sciences at <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a> University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Her studies of reproductive cells yield insights into the origins of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a>."</p>
janggolan<p>A Multitalented Scientist Seeks the Origins of <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Multicellularity</span></a>... <br><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-multitalented-scientist-seeks-the-origins-of-multicellularity-20240221/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">quantamagazine.org/a-multitale</span><span class="invisible">nted-scientist-seeks-the-origins-of-multicellularity-20240221/</span></a> <br>"We showed that in crickets, body <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/cells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cells</span></a> are induced to change into germ cells by signals from the surrounding tissues. That’s what happens in mice and other mammals, too, but it was thought to be a novel mechanism that appeared rarely in <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a>."</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Origins of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Multicellularity</span></a> Revisited <a href="https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2024/02/origins-of-multicellularity-revisited.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">schaechter.asmblog.org/schaech</span><span class="invisible">ter/2024/02/origins-of-multicellularity-revisited.html</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.science/@STCmicrobeblog" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>STCmicrobeblog</span></a></span> </p><p>"How can we get over the notion, still apparently widely held, that <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> are largely unicellular and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/eukaryotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eukaryotes</span></a> mostly multicellular? Our teaching should emphasize that facultative <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a> evolved very early, that it might even be intrinsic to the origin of life"</p>
Matt Willemsen<p>New Research Reveals That Complex Green Organisms Emerged a Billion Years Ago<br><a href="https://scitechdaily.com/new-research-reveals-that-complex-green-organisms-emerged-a-billion-years-ago/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scitechdaily.com/new-research-</span><span class="invisible">reveals-that-complex-green-organisms-emerged-a-billion-years-ago/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Evolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genetics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microbiology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plants</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photosynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photosynthesis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fossils</span></a> show that <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/eukaryotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eukaryotes</span></a> first acquired <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a> 1.63 billion years ago<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-01-north-china-fossils-eukaryotes-multicellularity.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-01-north-ch</span><span class="invisible">ina-fossils-eukaryotes-multicellularity.html</span></a></p><p>1.63-billion-year-old <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/multicellular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellular</span></a> eukaryotes from the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Chuanlinggou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chuanlinggou</span></a> Formation <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk3208" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv</span><span class="invisible">.adk3208</span></a></p><p>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Qingshania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Qingshania</span></a> was most likely <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/photosynthetic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photosynthetic</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algae</span></a>, probably belonging to the extinct stem group of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Archaeplastids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeplastids</span></a> (a major group consisting of red algae, green algae and land <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plants</span></a>, as well as <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/glaucophytes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glaucophytes</span></a>)"</p>
Matt Willemsen<p>Microbes that gave rise to all plants and animals became multicellular 1.6 billion years ago, tiny fossils reveal<br><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/microbes-gave-rise-all-plants-and-animals-became-multicellular-1-6-billion-years-ago" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/content/article/mi</span><span class="invisible">crobes-gave-rise-all-plants-and-animals-became-multicellular-1-6-billion-years-ago</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eukaryotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eukaryotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreenAlgae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenAlgae</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>complexity</span></a></p>