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Mikko Tuomi<p>Once upon a time, long ago, the world was encased in <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ice</span></a>. Hundreds of millions of years ago, glaciers and sea ice covered the globe. The most extreme scenarios suggest a layer of ice several meters thick even at the equator.</p><p>But when seawater gets cold, it gets viscous.</p><p>This fact could explain how single-celled ocean creatures became <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/multicellular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellular</span></a> when the planet was frozen during “Snowball Earth,” according to experiments.</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-physics-of-cold-water-may-have-jump-started-complex-life-20240724/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">quantamagazine.org/the-physics</span><span class="invisible">-of-cold-water-may-have-jump-started-complex-life-20240724/</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>New study discovers how altered protein folding drives multicellular evolution <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-03-protein-multicellular-evolution.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-03-protein-</span><span class="invisible">multicellular-evolution.html</span></a></p><p>Proteostatic tuning underpins the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> of novel <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/multicellular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellular</span></a> traits <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn2706" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv</span><span class="invisible">.adn2706</span></a></p><p>"By demonstrating the effect of protein-level changes in facilitating evolutionary change, this work highlights why knowledge of the genetic code in itself does not provide a full understanding of how organisms acquire adaptive behaviors."</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fossils</span></a> show that <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/eukaryotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eukaryotes</span></a> first acquired <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a> 1.63 billion years ago<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-01-north-china-fossils-eukaryotes-multicellularity.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-01-north-ch</span><span class="invisible">ina-fossils-eukaryotes-multicellularity.html</span></a></p><p>1.63-billion-year-old <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/multicellular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellular</span></a> eukaryotes from the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Chuanlinggou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chuanlinggou</span></a> Formation <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk3208" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv</span><span class="invisible">.adk3208</span></a></p><p>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Qingshania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Qingshania</span></a> was most likely <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/photosynthetic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photosynthetic</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algae</span></a>, probably belonging to the extinct stem group of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Archaeplastids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeplastids</span></a> (a major group consisting of red algae, green algae and land <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plants</span></a>, as well as <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/glaucophytes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glaucophytes</span></a>)"</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>New research shows the complexity of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bacterial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bacterial</span></a> circadian clocks<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2023-08-complexity-bacterial-circadian-clocks.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2023-08-complexi</span><span class="invisible">ty-bacterial-circadian-clocks.html</span></a></p><p>The <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/CircadianClock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CircadianClock</span></a> of the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bacterium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bacterium</span></a> B. subtilis evokes properties of complex, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/multicellular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellular</span></a> circadian systems <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh1308" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv</span><span class="invisible">.adh1308</span></a> by Francesca Sartor et al. </p><p>"The circadian clock in this <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/microbe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microbe</span></a> is pervasive: we see it regulating several <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/genes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genes</span></a>, and a range of different behaviors."</p>
Miro Collas<p>Mind-blowing Experiment Evolved Multicellular Life In Just 600 days - YouTube <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_MkchWsfao" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=5_MkchWsfa</span><span class="invisible">o</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biology</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Multicellular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Multicellular</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Evolution</span></a></p>
Vivek Mutalik<p>Bacterial <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/multicellular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellular</span></a> behavior in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/antiviral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiviral</span></a> defense</p><p><a href="https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/4984/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view</span><span class="invisible">/4984/</span></a></p>
John Orcutt<p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/FossilAdventCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilAdventCalendar</span></a> Day 4</p><p>The oddest and - at over 560 million years in age - oldest <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> featured in this <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/AdventCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AdventCalendar</span></a> is Fractofusus misrai from <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Newfoundland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Newfoundland</span></a> 🇨🇦. This specimen in the <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/RoyalOntarioMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoyalOntarioMuseum</span></a> is from <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/MistakenPoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MistakenPoint</span></a>, one of the sites preserving the <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Ediacaran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ediacaran</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/biota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biota</span></a>, the term for some of our planet's oldest <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/multicellular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellular</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a>. Lots of questions remain about these ancient enigmas, among them, were <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Ediacarans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ediacarans</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> or members of a different branch of the tree of life?</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Yellow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yellow</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/pigment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pigment</span></a> keeps <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SocialAmoebae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialAmoebae</span></a> together <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/968378" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eurekalert.org/news-releases/9</span><span class="invisible">68378</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protists</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SlimeMolds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SlimeMolds</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Polyketides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Polyketides</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Pigments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pigments</span></a> </p><p>Paper: Yellow <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/polyketide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>polyketide</span></a> pigment suppresses premature <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/hatching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hatching</span></a> in social amoeba <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116122119" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116</span><span class="invisible">122119</span></a></p><p>The <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/multicellular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellular</span></a> stage of the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/amoeba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amoeba</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Dicyostelium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dicyostelium</span></a> discoideum is partially regulated by an intensely yellow natural substance. The newly identified natural product of the polyketide family prevents the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/amoebae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amoebae</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/spores" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spores</span></a> from hatching too early.</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Did flooding force bacterial <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellularity</span></a>? <a href="https://micro-bites.org/2022/11/07/did-flooding-force-bacterial-multicellularity/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">micro-bites.org/2022/11/07/did</span><span class="invisible">-flooding-force-bacterial-multicellularity/</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MulticellularBacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MulticellularBacteria</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bacteria</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microbes</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Caves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Caves</span></a> </p><p>Paper: Novel multicellular <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/prokaryote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prokaryote</span></a> discovered next to an <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/underground" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>underground</span></a> stream <a href="https://elifesciences.org/articles/71920" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">elifesciences.org/articles/719</span><span class="invisible">20</span></a> </p><p>How life went from one cell to <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/multicellular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multicellular</span></a> is a hotly debated topic among <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientists</span></a>... A <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/limestone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>limestone</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/cave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cave</span></a> in the northern <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Kyushu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kyushu</span></a> Island of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> was hiding one clue: a fascinating new organism!</p>