The evolutionary origin of multicellularity is an age-old question in biological research.Diverse studies have delved into the evolutionary processes that led to the evolution of multicellular life forms from unicellu...The evolutionary origin of multicellularity is an age-old question in biological research.Diverse studies have delved into the evolutionary processes that led to the evolution of multicellular life forms from unicellular ancestors.The beauty and the challenge about this topic are that evolution has brought forth various forms of multicellular life,multiple times independently,scattered across the evolutionary tree of eukaryotes.Adding to the challenge,multicellular organisms exist in a diversity of forms and complexities,and the mechanisms by which multicellularity emerged are also likely different between animals,algae,or fungi(Niklas and Newman,2020).Recently,Nelson et al.(2024)presented a large-scale comparative genomics study focused on particularly intricate multicellular organisms:macroalgae(seaweeds),which emerged independently in three distinct eukaryotic lineages-green algae(Chlorophyta),red algae(Rhodophyta),and brown algae(Phaeophyceae).展开更多
基金the European Research Council for funding under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program(grant agreement 852725,ERC-StG"TerreStriAL")the German Research Foundation(DFG)for support through project"SHOAL"(514060973)the framework of the Priority Program"MAdLand-Molecular Adaptation to Land:Plant Evolution to Change"(SPP 2237,440231723 and 528076711),in which E.S.G.and I.I.partake as associate members.E.S.G.is grateful for support through the IMPRS Genome Science.
文摘The evolutionary origin of multicellularity is an age-old question in biological research.Diverse studies have delved into the evolutionary processes that led to the evolution of multicellular life forms from unicellular ancestors.The beauty and the challenge about this topic are that evolution has brought forth various forms of multicellular life,multiple times independently,scattered across the evolutionary tree of eukaryotes.Adding to the challenge,multicellular organisms exist in a diversity of forms and complexities,and the mechanisms by which multicellularity emerged are also likely different between animals,algae,or fungi(Niklas and Newman,2020).Recently,Nelson et al.(2024)presented a large-scale comparative genomics study focused on particularly intricate multicellular organisms:macroalgae(seaweeds),which emerged independently in three distinct eukaryotic lineages-green algae(Chlorophyta),red algae(Rhodophyta),and brown algae(Phaeophyceae).
