de Mendoza Alex, Ruiz-Trillo Iñaki
Alex de Mendoza is in the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain; Departament de Genètica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Iñaki Ruiz Trillo is in the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain; Departament de Genètica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
Elife. 2014 Nov 4;3:e05218. doi: 10.7554/eLife.05218.
A genetic screen has revealed one of the molecules that allow choanoflagellates, the closest unicellular relative of animals, to form colonies, which could help researchers to answer questions about the earliest days of animal evolution.
一项基因筛选揭示了一种能让领鞭毛虫(动物最亲近的单细胞亲戚)形成群体的分子,这有助于研究人员解答有关动物进化早期的问题。