Ancient origins of complex neuronal genes
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Preethi Krishnaraj, Chee Kiang Ewe
STING mediates immune responses in a unicellular choanoflagellate
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The STING ligand 2’3’-cGAMP induces an NF-κB-dependent anti-bacterial innate immune response in the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
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Connor Rosen
The Single-Celled Ancestors of Animals: A History of Hypotheses
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Hiral Shah, Dey Lab
A flagellate-to-amoeboid switch in the closest living relatives of animals
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Ankita Jha
A robust method for transfection in choanoflagellates illuminates their cell biology and the ancestry of animal septins
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Maya Emmons-Bell
The ancestral animal genetic toolkit revealed by diverse choanoflagellate transcriptomes
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Rafael Galupa