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1.63-billion-year-old multicellular eukaryotes from the Chuanlinggou Formation in North China.
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- Environmental phylogenetics supports a steady diversification of crown eukaryotes starting from the mid-Proterozoic.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Direct benefits are not necessary for the evolution of multicellularity.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Mapping life's disparity and evolutionary constraints in a geometric complexity space.Science advances · 2026Article
- A diverse Palaeoproterozoic microbial ecosystem implies early eukaryogenesis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Recommendations for mitochondria transfer and transplantation nomenclature and characterization.Nature metabolism · 2025Review
- The Strange Case of the Noncanonical Lamina: Deep Divisions in Nuclear Organisation?Sub-cellular biochemistry · 2025Review
- Proterozoic microfossils continue to provide new insights into the rise of complex eukaryotic life.Royal Society open science · 2024Review
- Subaerial volcanism broke mid-Proterozoic environmental stasis.Science advances · 2024Article
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Abstract
Multicellularity is key to the functional and ecological success of the Eukarya, underpinning much of their modern diversity in both terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Despite the widespread occurrence of simple multicellular organisms among eukaryotes, when this innovation arose remains an open question. Here, we report cellularly preserved multicellular microfossils (
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