choanoflagellate

• “Many species of choanoflagellate live a colonial existence (though they all live solitary during some stages of their life cycle).”

  Biomolecular Networks

• “The emergent complexity of this circuitry inside the choanoflagellate remains mysterious, as it is not clear why such a simple life form needs it.”

  Biomolecular Networks

• “The choanoflagellate genome, like the genomes of many seemingly simple organisms sequenced in recent years, shows a surprising degree of complexity, King said.”

  An Animal Toolkit in a Single-Celled Organism

• “Since then, the choanoflagellate lineage may have lost some essential genes needed to move toward metazoan evolution.”

  An Animal Toolkit in a Single-Celled Organism

• “The choanoflagellate example also puts to rest a common criticism that was raised when I first began to propose front-loading.”

  An Animal Toolkit in a Single-Celled Organism

• “New research into the choanoflagellate genome shows these ancient organisms have similar levels of proteins that cells in more complex organisms, including humans, use to communicate with each other. and:”

  3….2….1….

• “By analyzing the recently-sequenced choanoflagellate genome, the researchers discovered another similarity between choanoflagellates and most metazoans – their genetic code caries the markers of three types of molecules that cells use to achieve phospho-tyrosine signaling proteins.”

  3….2….1….

• “Recently, the choanoflagellate genome has been sequenced.”

  2008 February - Telic Thoughts

• “Here is a single-celled organism that contains multiple genes previously thought to be unique to animals and such animal-like genes have persisted in the choanoflagellate lineage for hundreds of millions of years even though they are clearly not essential for unicellular life.”

  Bird Teeth

• “(It looks like the choanoflagellate genome should be published pretty soon.)”

  Death of a popular anti-ID argument

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