Depending on the organism, these cells arrange themselves into a variety of tissues and organs, such as the gut, muscles, and sensory systems. While not all animals have each of these tissues, they do ...

A new study published in Science Advances reveals evidence of electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in choanoflagellates, the closest living relatives of animals. This elaborate example of ...

Solving the puzzle of multicellularity Piecing together the mystery of how single cell life forms evolved into multicellular organisms Date: February 2, 2018 Source: University of the ...

Multicellularity as we know it might not have been possible without having both the defectors and the cooperators — each type of behavior is necessary. Does Darwinian evolution reward cooperative ...

Wits PhD student, Jonathan Featherston, of the Evolution of Complexity Laboratory at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, has answered at least part of this question, by decoding the ...

Indeed, complex multicellularity has only evolved five separate times, always within eukaryotes.

Secretion of sugar polymers modulates multicellularity in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus Date: August 12, 2020 Source: Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS Summary: Research has ...

How Did Animal Multicellularity Originate? New research shows how a sophisticated mechanism for cell division contributed to the evolution of multicellular life.

How Multicellularity Arose Researchers identify a molecule that may have been key to the surprisingly common transition from single-celled ancestors to today’s complex, multicellular organisms.

How exactly multicellularity arose is still a mystery, but a new study, published January 16 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science s, found that it may have been quicker and easier ...

Multicellularity meant several things, including cells not dividing so fast, reining in resource use, taking care of the extracellular environment, and sometimes even making the ultimate sacrifice ...

A Model Bacterium Multicellularity is typically associated with organisms such as fungi, plants, and animals. As part of this study, the researchers studied the basis for this evolutionary ...