Many Roads Lead to… the embryo
Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the ...
Ancient unicellular organism indicates embryonic development might have existed prior to animals' evolution
Later, animals—multicellular organisms—evolved, developing from a single egg cell to form complex beings. This embryonic ...
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Gene Switches
Altogether, multicellular organisms like humans ... on or off in different body regions and cell types. Later in an animal's development, epigenetic switches take over. These epigenetic mechanisms ...
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Ancient Protist May Hold Clues to Evolution of Multicellular Life
Later, animals - multicellular organisms - evolved, developing from a single cell, the egg cell, to form complex beings. This embryonic development follows precise stages that are remarkably ...
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Have scientists solved the chicken or egg problem?
The embryo development process in animals follows ... in biology is how evolution progressed from unicellular organisms to multicellular ones, and exactly how this transition occurred is still ...
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Many roads lead to… the embryo: ISTA shows evolution had many optimal outcomes to choose from
https://ista.ac.at/en/research/tkacik-group/ Information Processing in Biological Systems research group at ISTA ...
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Volvox, Chlamydomonas, and the Evolution of Multicellularity
Scientists who study a family of green algae that includes unicellular Chlamydomonas and multicellular Volvox ... The unicellular ancestry of animal development. Developmental Cell 7, 313 ...
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Volvocine Algae and Multicellularity Evolution
These organisms exhibit ... that contribute to their multicellular nature. One of the key areas of research has been the molecular and cellular dynamics of early embryonic cell divisions in ...