How contraction has shaped evolution

Elife. 2019 Nov 14:8:e52805. doi: 10.7554/eLife.52805.

Abstract

Two unicellular relatives of animals reveal that coordinated contractions of groups of cells using actomyosin predated animal multicellularity during evolution.

Keywords: actin; cell biology; cellularization; coenocyte; epithelium; evolution; evolutionary biology; multicellularity.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Actin Cytoskeleton*
  • Actomyosin*
  • Animals

Substances

  • Actomyosin