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TWiEVO 48: Flipping out with choanos on caffeine

  • October 30, 2019
  • Tagged as: actomyosin, choanoflagellate, contraction, evolution, light regulated contraction, multicellularity, natural selection, phosphodiesterase, rhodopsin

Nels and Vincent reveal a new choanoflagellate that forms multicellular cup shaped colonies that respond to light to alternate between feeding and swimming behavior.

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TWiEVO 11: Microbial accomplices in multicellularity

  • September 27, 2016
  • Tagged as: Algoriphagus machipongonensis, choanoflagellate, development, evolution, lysophosphatidylethanolamine, multicellular, rosette, Salpingoeca rosetta
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Nicole joins Nels and Vincent to discuss the finding of her laboratory that multicellular development of choanoflagellates, the closest living relatives of animals, is regulated by bacterial lipids.

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