Macroalgae genetics study sheds light on how seaweed became multicellular
Surprisingly, many of these multicellular-enabling genes had viral ... Many of these metabolic genes appear to have been ...
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Volvox, Chlamydomonas, and the Evolution of Multicellularity
How does multicellularity evolve? Scientists who study a family of green algae that includes unicellular Chlamydomonas and multicellular Volvox are beginning to find answers to this question.
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The oldest multicellular algae fossil dates to 1,200 mya. At this time, biological diversity increases greatly, with algae, fungi, animals, and plants diverging from their common eukaryote ancestors.
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Multicellularity evolved from multiple independent origins.
Some lineages shown here that contain some multicellular species, such as the chlorophycean algae (of which the volvocine algae are members) also include several colonial species. For simplicity ...