Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Curr Biol. 2012 Jun 19;22(12):1123-7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.04.021. Epub 2012 May 17.
Multicellular forms of life have evolved many times, independently giving rise to a diversity of organisms such as animals, plants, and fungi that together comprise the visible biosphere. Yet multicellular life is far more widespread among eukaryotes than just these three lineages. A particularly common form of multicellularity is a social aggregative fruiting lifestyle whereby individual cells associate to form a "fungus-like" sorocarp. This complex developmental process that requires the interaction of thousands of cells working in concert was made famous by the "cellular slime mold"Dictyostelium discoideum, which became an important model organism. Although sorocarpic protistan lineages have been identified in five of the major eukaryote groups, the ubiquitous and globally distributed species Guttulinopsis vulgaris has eluded proper classification. Here we demonstrate, by phylogenomic analyses of a 159-protein data set, that G. vulgaris is a member of Rhizaria and is thus the first member of this eukaryote supergroup known to be capable of aggregative multicellularity.
多细胞生物已经多次进化,独立地产生了多种生物体,如动物、植物和真菌,它们共同构成了可见的生物圈。然而,多细胞生物在真核生物中的分布远比这三个谱系广泛得多。一种特别常见的多细胞形式是一种社会聚集的果实生活方式,其中个体细胞聚集在一起形成一个“类似真菌”的子实体。这种需要数千个协同工作的细胞相互作用的复杂发育过程以“细胞黏菌”Dictyostelium discoideum 而闻名,它成为了一种重要的模式生物。尽管已经在五个主要的真核生物群体中鉴定出了具有子实体的原生生物谱系,但无处不在且分布广泛的物种Guttulinopsis vulgaris 一直未能得到适当的分类。在这里,我们通过对 159 个蛋白质数据集的系统基因组分析表明,G. vulgaris 是根足虫类的成员,因此它是第一个已知能够进行聚集性多细胞化的真核生物超群的成员。
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