A flagellate-to-amoeboid switch in the closest living relatives of animals
Amoeboid cell types are fundamental to animal biology and broadly distributed across animal diversity, but their evolutionary origin is unclear. The closest living relatives of animals, the choanoflagellates, display a polarized cell architecture (with an apical flagellum encircled by microvilli) th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2021-01-01
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| Series: | eLife |
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| Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/61037 |