Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Rapid repurposing of microvillar content drives a flagellate-to-amoeboid switch in the closest relative of animals
Maite Freire-Delgado, Diede de Haan, Stéphane Tachon…·Thibaut Brunet
This study identifies rapid cytoskeletal remodeling in choanoflagellates during a flagellate-to-amoeboid switch, driven by microvillar retraction and actin cortex formation.
DOI 10.64898/2026.08.28.747835