Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Pluripotency and the origin of animal multicellularity
S. Sogabe, W. Hatleberg, K. Kocot…·B. Degnan
The paper compares sponge cell types with choanoflagellates to test the hypothesis that animals evolved from a unicellular ancestor, finding that sponge choanocytes are distinct from choanoflagellates and suggest a more complex origin of multicellularity.
DOI 10.1038/s41586-019-1290-4