ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2014
Bacterial influences on animal origins.
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- Adherens Junctions and Desmosomes Coordinate Mechanics and Signaling to Orchestrate Tissue Morphogenesis and Function: An Evolutionary Perspective.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2018Review
- Exploring the evolution of multicellularity inEcology and evolution · 2018Article
- Origin of animal multicellularity: precursors, causes, consequences-the choanoflagellate/sponge transition, neurogenesis and the Cambrian explosion.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Bacterial lipids activate, synergize, and inhibit a developmental switch in choanoflagellates.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- Notch-Mediated Cell Adhesion.Biology · 2016Review
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Abstract
Animals evolved in seas teeming with bacteria, yet the influences of bacteria on animal origins are poorly understood. Comparisons among modern animals and their closest living relatives, the choanoflagellates, suggest that the first animals used flagellated collar cells to capture bacterial prey. The cell biology of prey capture, such as cell adhesion between predator and prey, involves mechanisms that may have been co-opted to mediate intercellular interactions during the evolution of animal multicellularity. Moreover, a history of bacterivory may have influenced the evolution of animal genomes by driving the evolution of genetic pathways for immunity and facilitating lateral gene transfer. Understanding the interactions between bacteria and the progenitors of animals may help to explain the myriad ways in which bacteria shape the biology of modern animals, including ourselves.
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