Can You Hear Me Now? Primitive Single-Celled Microbe Expert In C...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Tue, 07/08/2008 - 09:45

When it comes to cellular communication networks, a primitive single-celled microbe that answers to the name of Monosiga brevicollis has a leg up on animals composed of billions of cells.

It commands a signaling network more elaborate and diverse than found in any multicellular organism higher up on the evolutionary tree, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered.

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