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

A flagellate-to-amoeboid switch in the closest living relatives of animals

(2021) Thibaut Brunet et al.   eLife

Biophysical principles of choanoflagellate self-organization

(2020) Ben T. Larson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Widespread patterns of gene loss in the evolution of the animal kingdom

(2020) Cristina Guijarro-Clarke et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Gene gain and loss across the metazoan tree of life

(2020) Rosa Fernández et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

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

(2020) Denis V. Tikhonenkov et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Does Formation of Multicellular Colonies by Choanoflagellates Affect Their Susceptibility to Capture by Passive Protozoan Predators?

(2020) William E. Kumler et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology

(2020) Drahomíra Faktorová et al.   NATURE METHODS

Cell cycle transcriptomics of Capsaspora provides insights into the evolution of cyclin-CDK machinery

(2020) Alberto Pérez-Posada et al.   PLoS Genetics

Gene similarity networks unveil a potential novel unicellular group closely related to animals from the Tara Oceans expedition

(2020) Alicia S Arroyo et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Genome editing enables reverse genetics of multicellular development in the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta

(2020) David S Booth et al.   eLife

Integrin-Mediated Adhesion in the Unicellular Holozoan Capsaspora owczarzaki

(2020) Helena Parra-Acero et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

New Lineage of Microbial Predators Adds Complexity to Reconstructing the Evolutionary Origin of Animals

(2020) Denis V. Tikhonenkov et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Topology-dependent asymmetry in systematic errors affects phylogenetic placement of Ctenophora and Xenacoelomorpha

(2020) Paschalia Kapli et al.   Science Advances

De novo origins of multicellularity in response to predation

(2019) Matthew D. Herron et al.   Scientific Reports

Integrative single-cell analysis

(2019) Tim Stuart et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The architecture of cell differentiation in choanoflagellates and sponge choanocytes

(2019) Davis Laundon et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Gamete Nuclear Migration in Animals and Plants

(2019) Umma Fatema et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Evolution of neuronal types and families

(2019) Detlev Arendt et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Revisiting metazoan phylogeny with genomic sampling of all phyla

(2019) Christopher E. Laumer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Microscopical Studies on Ministeria vibrans Tong, 1997 (Filasterea) Highlight the Cytoskeletal Structure of the Common Ancestor of Filasterea, Metazoa and Choanoflagellata

(2019) Alexander P. Mylnikov et al.   PROTIST

Origin and evolution of eukaryotic transcription factors

(2019) Alex de Mendoza et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

The origin and evolution of cell-intrinsic antibacterial defenses in eukaryotes

(2019) Daniel J Richter et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Reconstruction of protein domain evolution using single-cell amplified genomes of uncultured choanoflagellates sheds light on the origin of animals

(2019) David López-Escardó et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Light-regulated collective contractility in a multicellular choanoflagellate

(2019) Thibaut Brunet et al.   SCIENCE

A unicellular relative of animals generates a layer of polarized cells by actomyosin-dependent cellularization

(2019) Omaya Dudin et al.   eLife

Spatial Cell Disparity in the Colonial Choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta

(2019) Benjamin Naumann et al.   Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Emergence and Evolution of ERM Proteins and Merlin in Metazoans

(2019) Victoria Shabardina et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Rethinking the Role of the Nervous System: Lessons From the Hydra Holobiont

(2018) Alexander V. Klimovich et al.   BIOESSAYS

Wnt signaling and polarity in freshwater sponges

(2018) Pamela J. Windsor Reid et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

New genomic data and analyses challenge the traditional vision of animal epithelium evolution

(2018) Hassiba Belahbib et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Cnidarian Cell Type Diversity and Regulation Revealed by Whole-Organism Single-Cell RNA-Seq

(2018) Arnau Sebé-Pedrós et al.   CELL

Decoupling of Nuclear Division Cycles and Cell Size during the Coenocytic Growth of the Ichthyosporean Sphaeroforma arctica

(2018) Andrej Ondracka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Lessons from simple marine models on the bacterial regulation of eukaryotic development

(2018) Arielle Woznica et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Transfection ofCapsaspora owczarzaki, a close unicellular relative of animals

(2018) Helena Parra-Acero et al.   DEVELOPMENT

High-throughput environmental sequencing reveals high diversity of litter and moss associated protist communities along a gradient of drainage and tree productivity

(2018) Thierry J. Heger et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Reconstruction of the ancestral metazoan genome reveals an increase in genomic novelty

(2018) Jordi Paps et al.   Nature Communications

Src signaling in a low-complexity unicellular kinome

(2018) Hiroshi Suga et al.   Scientific Reports

Strength in numbers: Collaborative science for new experimental model systems

(2018) Ross F. Waller et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

We are not so special

(2018) Zachary R Lewis et al.   eLife

Gene family innovation, conservation and loss on the animal stem lineage

(2018) Daniel J Richter et al.   eLife

Early metazoan cell type diversity and the evolution of multicellular gene regulation

(2018) Arnau Sebé-Pedrós et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes

(2018) Sina M. Adl et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Unicellular Origin of the Animal MicroRNA Machinery

(2018) Jon Bråte et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Revision of the Capsaspora genome using read mating information adjusts the view on premetazoan genome

(2018) Seitaro Denbo et al.   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

Transfection of choanoflagellates illuminates their cell biology and the ancestry of animal septins

(2018) David S. Booth et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Resolving relationships at the animal-fungal divergence: A molecular phylogenetic study of the protist trichomycetes (Ichthyosporea, Eccrinida)

(2017) Nicole K. Reynolds et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The origin of Metazoa: a unicellular perspective

(2017) Arnau Sebé-Pedrós et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Sea anemone model has a single Toll-like receptor that can function in pathogen detection, NF-κB signal transduction, and development

(2017) Joseph J. Brennan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dynamics of genomic innovation in the unicellular ancestry of animals

(2017) Xavier Grau-Bové et al.   eLife

Collagen IV and basement membrane at the evolutionary dawn of metazoan tissues

(2017) Aaron L Fidler et al.   eLife

Dating early animal evolution using phylogenomic data

(2017) Martin Dohrmann et al.   Scientific Reports

Animal multicellularity and polarity without Wnt signaling

(2017) Quentin Schenkelaars et al.   Scientific Reports

The origin of animals: Can molecular clocks and the fossil record be reconciled?

(2016) John A. Cunningham et al.   BIOESSAYS

The diversification of the basic leucine zipper family in eukaryotes correlates with the evolution of multicellularity

(2016) Katia Jindrich et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Dynamic Regulatory Genome of Capsaspora and the Origin of Animal Multicellularity

(2016) Arnau Sebé-Pedrós et al.   CELL

High-Throughput Proteomics Reveals the Unicellular Roots of Animal Phosphosignaling and Cell Differentiation

(2016) Arnau Sebé-Pedrós et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Ecological and evolutionary significance of novel protist lineages

(2016) Javier del Campo et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Protist metabarcoding and environmental biomonitoring: Time for change

(2016) J. Pawlowski et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Evolution by gene loss

(2016) Ricard Albalat et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Origin of animal multicellularity: precursors, causes, consequences—the choanoflagellate/sponge transition, neurogenesis and the Cambrian explosion

(2016) Thomas Cavalier-Smith   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bacterial lipids activate, synergize, and inhibit a developmental switch in choanoflagellates

(2016) Arielle Woznica et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Seasonal Occurrence of Loricate Choanoflagellates in Danish Inner Waters

(2016) Helge Abildhauge Thomsen et al.   PROTIST

The Future of Cell Biology: Emerging Model Organisms

(2016) Bob Goldstein et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Losing Complexity: The Role of Simplification in Macroevolution

(2016) Maureen A. O’Malley et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Conserved expression of vertebrate microvillar gene homologs in choanocytes of freshwater sponges

(2016) Jesús F. Peña et al.   EvoDevo

Punctuated evolution and transitional hybrid network in an ancestral cell cycle of fungi

(2016) Edgar M Medina et al.   eLife

Evolutionary history of phosphatidylinositol- 3-kinases: ancestral origin in eukaryotes and complex duplication patterns

(2015) Héloïse Philippon et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Spiralian Phylogeny Informs the Evolution of Microscopic Lineages

(2015) Christopher E. Laumer et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phylogenomics Reveals Convergent Evolution of Lifestyles in Close Relatives of Animals and Fungi

(2015) Guifré Torruella et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Uncertainty in the Timing of Origin of Animals and the Limits of Precision in Molecular Timescales

(2015) Mario dos Reis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phylogenomic Insights into Animal Evolution

(2015) Maximilian J. Telford et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Diversity and distribution of unicellular opisthokonts along the European coast analysed using high-throughput sequencing

(2015) Javier del Campo et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Convergent evolution of neural systems in ctenophores

(2015) L. L. Moroz   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Evolution of Aggregative Multicellularity and Cell–Cell Communication in the Dictyostelia

(2015) Qingyou Du et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Polarity and cell division orientation in the cleavage embryo: from worm to human

(2015) Anna Ajduk et al.   MOLECULAR HUMAN REPRODUCTION

New animal phylogeny: future challenges for animal phylogeny in the age of phylogenomics

(2015) Gonzalo Giribet   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Independent origins of neurons and synapses: insights from ctenophores

(2015) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genomic data do not support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals

(2015) Davide Pisani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Error, signal, and the placement of Ctenophora sister to all other animals

(2015) Nathan V. Whelan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomic insights into the evolutionary origin of Myxozoa within Cnidaria

(2015) E. Sally Chang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Two New Species of Marine Saprotrophic Sphaeroformids in the Mesomycetozoea Isolated From the Sub-Arctic Bering Sea

(2015) Brandon T. Hassett et al.   PROTIST

Origin and evolution of lysyl oxidases

(2015) Xavier Grau-Bové et al.   Scientific Reports

Complex transcriptional regulation and independent evolution of fungal-like traits in a relative of animals

(2015) Alex de Mendoza et al.   eLife

Regulation of Src and Csk Nonreceptor Tyrosine Kinases in the Filasterean Ministeria vibrans

(2014) Kira P. Schultheiss et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Oxygen and animal evolution: Did a rise of atmospheric oxygen “trigger” the origin of animals?

(2014) Daniel B. Mills et al.   BIOESSAYS

Evolutionary origin of gastrulation: insights from sponge development

(2014) Nagayasu Nakanishi et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic analysis of CDK and cyclin proteins in premetazoan lineages

(2014) Lihuan Cao et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evolution and Classification of Myosins, a Paneukaryotic Whole-Genome Approach

(2014) Arnau Sebé-Pedrós et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The Evolution of the GPCR Signaling System in Eukaryotes: Modularity, Conservation, and the Transition to Metazoan Multicellularity

(2014) Alex de Mendoza et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The Analysis of Eight Transcriptomes from All Poriferan Classes Reveals Surprising Genetic Complexity in Sponges

(2014) Ana Riesgo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems

(2014) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   NATURE

Oxygen requirements of the earliest animals

(2014) D. B. Mills et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ratcheting the evolution of multicellularity

(2014) Eric Libby et al.   SCIENCE

Bacterial Influences on Animal Origins

(2014) R. A. Alegado et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Developmental gene expression provides clues to relationships between sponge and eumetazoan body plans

(2014) Sven Leininger et al.   Nature Communications

The rosetteless gene controls development in the choanoflagellate S. rosetta

(2014) Tera C Levin et al.   eLife

The Genomic and Cellular Foundations of Animal Origins

(2013) Daniel J. Richter et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Evidence for Sex and Recombination in the Choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta

(2013) Tera C. Levin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Development of ichthyosporeans sheds light on the origin of metazoan multicellularity

(2013) Hiroshi Suga et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic interpretations and ecological potentials of the Mesomycetozoea (Ichthyosporea)

(2013) Sally L. Glockling et al.   Fungal Ecology

Insights into the Origin of Metazoan Filopodia and Microvilli

(2013) Arnau Sebé-Pedrós et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Environmental Survey Meta-analysis Reveals Hidden Diversity among Unicellular Opisthokonts

(2013) Javier del Campo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Earliest Holozoan Expansion of Phosphotyrosine Signaling

(2013) Hiroshi Suga et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Early evolution of the T-box transcription factor family

(2013) A. Sebe-Pedros et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Transcription factor evolution in eukaryotes and the assembly of the regulatory toolkit in multicellular lineages

(2013) A. de Mendoza et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oxygen, ecology, and the Cambrian radiation of animals

(2013) E. A. Sperling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenomics demonstrates that breviate flagellates are related to opisthokonts and apusomonads

(2013) M. W. Brown et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Genome of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and Its Implications for Cell Type Evolution

(2013) J. F. Ryan et al.   SCIENCE

The Capsaspora genome reveals a complex unicellular prehistory of animals

(2013) Hiroshi Suga et al.   Nature Communications

Regulated aggregative multicellularity in a close unicellular relative of metazoa

(2013) Arnau Sebé-Pedrós et al.   eLife

Premetazoan genome evolution and the regulation of cell differentiation in the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta

(2013) Stephen R Fairclough et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Lack of Csk-Mediated Negative Regulation in a Unicellular Src Kinase

(2012) Kira P. Schultheiss et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Origin and evolution of spliceosomal introns

(2012) Igor B Rogozin et al.   Biology Direct

Ecologically relevant choanoflagellates collected from hypoxic water masses of the Baltic Sea have untypical mitochondrial cristae

(2012) Claudia Wylezich et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Aggregative Multicellularity Evolved Independently in the Eukaryotic Supergroup Rhizaria

(2012) Matthew W. Brown et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A Nuptially Transmitted Ichthyosporean Symbiont of Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

(2012) Jeffrey C. Lord et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Origin of metazoan cadherin diversity and the antiquity of the classical cadherin/ -catenin complex

(2012) S. A. Nichols et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Evolutionary Landscape of Alternative Splicing in Vertebrate Species

(2012) N. L. Barbosa-Morais et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic Survey of Premetazoans Shows Deep Conservation of Cytoplasmic Tyrosine Kinases and Multiple Radiations of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases

(2012) H. Suga et al.   Science Signaling

Premetazoan Origin of the Hippo Signaling Pathway

(2012) Arnau Sebé-Pedrós et al.   Cell Reports

CBOL Protist Working Group: Barcoding Eukaryotic Richness beyond the Animal, Plant, and Fungal Kingdoms

(2012) Jan Pawlowski et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

A bacterial sulfonolipid triggers multicellular development in the closest living relatives of animals

(2012) Rosanna A Alegado et al.   eLife

The Multiple Origins of Complex Multicellularity

(2011) Andrew H. Knoll   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: Dictyostelium discoideum

(2011) P. Schaap   DEVELOPMENT

Cell differentiation and morphogenesis in the colony-forming choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta

(2011) Mark J. Dayel et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic Analysis of the Teneurins: Conserved Features and Premetazoan Ancestry

(2011) R. P. Tucker et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Premetazoan Ancestry of the Myc–Max Network

(2011) Susan L. Young et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic Relationships within the Opisthokonta Based on Phylogenomic Analyses of Conserved Single-Copy Protein Domains

(2011) G. Torruella et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Eukaryotic Richness in the Abyss: Insights from Pyrotag Sequencing

(2011) Jan Pawlowski et al.   PLoS One

Emerging Diversity within Chrysophytes, Choanoflagellates and Bicosoecids Based on Molecular Surveys

(2011) Javier del Campo et al.   PROTIST

A Polarized Epithelium Organized by  - and  -Catenin Predates Cadherin and Metazoan Origins

(2011) D. J. Dickinson et al.   SCIENCE

Strong functional patterns in the evolution of eukaryotic genomes revealed by the reconstruction of ancestral protein domain repertoires

(2011) Christian M Zmasek et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Evolution of the MAGUK protein gene family in premetazoan lineages

(2010) Alex de Mendoza et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Multicellular development in a choanoflagellate

(2010) Stephen R. Fairclough et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Origin of animal epithelia: insights from the sponge genome

(2010) Bryony Fahey et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

The genome of the sponge Amphimedon queenslandica provides new perspectives into the origin of Toll-like and interleukin 1 receptor pathways

(2010) Marie E. A. Gauthier et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

A Daphnia Parasite (Caullerya mesnili) Constitutes a New Member of the Ichthyosporea, a Group of Protists near the Animal-Fungi Divergence

(2010) JENNIFER N. LOHR et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Unexpected Repertoire of Metazoan Transcription Factors in the Unicellular Holozoan Capsaspora owczarzaki

(2010) A. Sebe-Pedros et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

Expansion of the eukaryotic proteome by alternative splicing

(2010) Timothy W. Nilsen et al.   NATURE

Ancient origin of the integrin-mediated adhesion and signaling machinery

(2010) A. Sebe-Pedros et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Facing Unknowns: Living Cultures (Pirum gemmata gen. nov., sp. nov., and Abeoforma whisleri, gen. nov., sp. nov.) from Invertebrate Digestive Tracts Represent an Undescribed Clade within the Unicellular Opisthokont Lineage Ichthyosporea (Mesomycetozoea)

(2010) Wyth L. Marshall et al.   PROTIST

Diverse evolutionary paths to cell adhesion

(2010) Monika Abedin et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

The origin of Metazoa: a transition from temporal to spatial cell differentiation

(2009) Kirill V. Mikhailov et al.   BIOESSAYS

Quantitative regulation of alternative splicing in evolution and development

(2009) Manuel Irimia et al.   BIOESSAYS

Structure and seasonal dynamics of the protozoan community (heterotrophic flagellates, ciliates, amoeboid protozoa) in the plankton of a large river (River Danube, Hungary)

(2009) Áron Keve Kiss et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Phylogeny of the "Forgotten" Cellular Slime Mold, Fonticula alba, Reveals a Key Evolutionary Branch within Opisthokonta

(2009) M. W. Brown et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Phylogenomic Investigation into the Origin of Metazoa

(2008) Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Trichoplax genome and the nature of placozoans

(2008) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans

(2008) Nicole King et al.   NATURE

Multigene Phylogeny of Choanozoa and the Origin of Animals

(2008) Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi et al.   PLoS One

The protist, Monosiga brevicollis, has a tyrosine kinase signaling network more elaborate and diverse than found in any known metazoan

(2008) G. Manning et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular phylogeny of choanoflagellates, the sister group to Metazoa

(2008) M. Carr et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Multiple Isolations of a Culturable, Motile Ichthyosporean (Mesomycetozoa, Opisthokonta), Creolimax fragrantissima n. gen., n. sp., from Marine Invertebrate Digestive Tracts

(2008) Wyth L. Marshall et al.   PROTIST

The Premetazoan Ancestry of Cadherins

(2008) Monika Abedin et al.   SCIENCE

Ferruginous Conditions Dominated Later Neoproterozoic Deep-Water Chemistry

(2008) D. E. Canfield et al.   SCIENCE