The ancestral animal genetic toolkit revealed by diverse choanoflagellate transcriptomes
D. Richter, P. Fozouni, M. Eisen, N. King
This study reconstructs the ancestral animal gene repertoire by analyzing 19 additional choanoflagellate transcriptomes, revealing gene families previously thought to be animal-specific actually evolved earlier.
bioRxiv · Dec 26, 2017Evolutionary Biology