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- noun Plural form of
metazoan .
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Read the title again, then read "In other cases, Monosiga proteins are associated with signaling domains not found in metazoans or found in a different architecture, indicating it has successfully explored new paths within signaling space."
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"In other cases, Monosiga proteins are associated with signaling domains not found in metazoans or found in a different architecture, indicating it has successfully explored new paths within signaling space."
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What choanoflagellates clearly demonstrate is that genes, long thought to be metazoan-specific because of their function in metazoans, can indeed exist in a unicellular state across deep time.
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The one that we know, that maintained the biotic sphere from unicellular organisms to the diversity of the metazoans is unremarkable?
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There isn't anything in any of those research papers that shows that single-celled organisms can "evolve" into multi-cellular metazoans.
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We have a common ancestor that evolved intercellular signalling (for e.g. colonialism, mating), a function which was expanded in certain lineages, (esp. metazoans that used those signally functions to coordinate across specialized tissues).
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As for HGT/LGT and metazoans - anyone see "The Fly"?
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ID guy: Can any of thise researchers show that multi-cellular metazoans evolved from those single-celled organism?
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In the context of this thread, the homeobox regulatory mechanism of non-metameric ancestral metazoans (such as flatworms) would qualify as an exaptation for the homeobox regulatory mechanism of their metameric descendants.
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Guts: At this point the monosiga and metazoan lineages diverged – monosiga kept its single celled lifestyle because it had it's own niche to fill with it's own environmental challenges, while metazoans went on to become multicellular.
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