Aerotaxis in the closest relatives of animals

As the closest unicellular relatives of animals, choanoflagellates serve as useful model organisms for understanding the evolution of animal multicellularity. An important factor in animal evolution was the increasing ocean oxygen levels in the Precambrian, which are thought to have influenced the e...

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Main Authors: Julius B Kirkegaard, Ambre Bouillant, Alan O Marron, Kyriacos C Leptos, Raymond E Goldstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2016-11-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/18109