The world would look very different without multicellular organisms -- take away the plants, animals, fungi, and seaweed, and Earth starts to look like a wetter, greener version of Mars.

The totality of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism forms its natural microbiome. The ...

Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered that the vast anatomical variety of fungi stems from evolutionary increases in multicellular complexity. Most people recognise that fungi ...

They saw increases in disparity associated with both the emergence of the first multicellular fungi, and then the evolution of complex fruiting bodies such as mushrooms and saddles in dikaryotic ...

Horizontal Gene Transfer Happens More Often Than Anyone Thought. DNA passed to and from all kinds of organisms, even across kingdoms, has helped shape the tree of life, to a large and undisputed ...

Imagine life without animals, trees, and fungi. The world would look very different. But while the first life was surely single-celled, we don’t know just how it evolved to multicellular organisms.

Imagine life without animals, trees, and fungi. The world would look very different. But while the first life was surely single-celled, we don’t know just how it evolved to multicellular organisms.

The world would look very different without multicellular organisms – take away the plants, animals, fungi, and seaweed, and Earth starts to look like a wetter, greener version of Mars. But precisely ...

Fungi may have done it much as Ratcliff’s yeast did, with small groups of cells that gained strength through entanglement. Animals, which had very different single-celled ancestors , probably ...

Standing at mere millimetres, these organisms were once classed as multicellular fungi, but are now considered a unique type of single-celled protozoa in their own right.

However, eukaryotic cells have since diversified into many complex, multicellular organisms that we see around us every day—fungi, plants and animals—while prokaryotes have remained decidedly ...