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This project explores the evolutionary origins of animals by studying their unicellular relatives. It aims to identify and characterize novel lineages that may provide insights into the transition from unicellular to multicellular life, enhancing our understanding of embryogenesis and cell differentiation.
How animals emerged from their unicellular ancestors remains a major evolutionary question.
Work done on diverse unicellular relatives of animals demonstrated that the unicellular ancestor of animals had a larger repertoire of genes associated with multicellularity than previously thought.
These include “animal-specific” genes such as protein tyrosine kinases, integrins and Brachyury.
This suggests a latent genetic potential in place at the origin of animals and hints at a much more gradual tran…
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