Pluripotency and the origin of animal multicellularity
S. Sogabe, W. Hatleberg, K. Kocot, T. Say, D. Stoupin, K. Roper, S. Fernandez-Valverde, S. Degnan, B. Degnan
The paper compares sponge cell types with choanoflagellates to test the hypothesis that animals evolved from a unicellular ancestor, finding that sponge choanocytes are distinct from choanoflagellates and suggest a more complex origin of multicellularity.
bioRxiv · Mar 1, 2019Evolutionary Biology