The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans

King, Nicole; Jody Westbrook, M.; L. Young, Susan; Kuo, Alan; Abedin, Monika; Chapman, Jarrod; R. Fairclough, Stephen; Hellsten, Uffe; Isogai, Yoh; Letunić, Ivica; T. Marr, Michael; Pincus, David; H. Putnam, Nicholas; Rokas, Antonis; J. Wright, Kevin; Zuzow, Richard; Dirks, William; C. Good, Matthew; Goodstein, David; Lemons, Derek; Li, Wanqing; B. Lyons, Jessica; Morris, Andrea; Nichols, Scott; J. Richter, Daniel; Salamov, Asaf; Sequencing, JGI; Bork, Peer; A. Lim, Wendell; Manning, Gerard; Todd Miller, W.; McGinnis, William; Shapiro, Harris; Tjian, Robert; V. Grigoriev, Igor; S. Rokhsar, Daniel

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The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans

Published in Nature • Feb 1, 2008

Authors:

Nicole King

M. Jody Westbrook

Susan L. Young

Abstract

Choanoflagellates are the closest known relatives of metazoans. To discover potential molecular mechanisms underlying the evolution of metazoan multicellularity, we sequenced and analysed the genome of the unicellular choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis. The genome contains approximately 9,200 int...

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Biology

Multicellular organism

Genome

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