Cave Bacteria: Illuminating A New Path To Multicellularity

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Multicellularity is a widespread development of life on Earth and so is the use of the term. The term multicellularity is currently used to characterize a broad spectrum of cellular

This Special Issue, “Evolution of Multicellularity”, which consists of reviews, an opinion piece and original research articles, highlights and addresses some of these questions. These articles

Toward a New Understanding of Multicellularity

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A new species of multicellular bacteria broadens our understanding of prokaryotic multicellularity and provides insight into how multicellular organisms arise.

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Odd cave bacterium forms a multicellular ‘body,’ like
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Illuminating a new path to multicellularity.

The process is not only limited to caves, as bacteria influencing crystal formation are also found in soil, and some pathogenic bacteria such as Helicobacter pylori, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, or

bacterial multicellularity (Mizuno et al., 2022). Deep in a limestone cave system in northern Kyushu Island, Japan, growing alongside a river that periodically lls the cave

A new bacterium isolated from an underground stream shows a novel multicellularity by self-organizing its filamentous cells like a liquid crystal and accommodating daughter cells in a sequential manner, which would be a

The transition to multicellularity was one of a few major events in life’s history that created new opportunities for more complex biological systems to evolve. As this transiti Nov.

On The Evolution of Bacterial Multicellularity

In this review we focus on bacteria and algae present in cave ecosystems, their role in shaping such specific environment, and their biotechnological and medical potential.

Multicellularity also enabled vast phenotypic expansion and diversification, primarily via cell differentiation and temporal development of morphological structures within an organism. And

Tag: cave bacteria. TWiM 276: Bacterial multicellularity near an underground stream . November 28, 2022 and considers how a novel prokaryote discovered next to an underground stream

Figure 1. Cartoon representation of the life cycle of Jeongeupia sacculi sp. nov. HS- 3’s in an underground cave system. [1] The bacterium grows on cave walls in flat, liquid crystal colonies

Here, we report a new cave bacterium that can develop a multicellular-like architecture, possibly through the influence of an external environmental constraint, from a simple, but ordered, cell

Yet multicellularity has evolved many times in distinct lineages inhabiting markedly different ecologies. In this review, our goal is to describe key selective drivers of simple

A new species of multicellular bacteria broadens our understanding of prokaryotic multicellularity and provides insight into how multicellular organisms arise.

Selective drivers of simple multicellularity

Illuminating a new path to multicellularity. Article. Full-text available. Oct 2022; Sayantan Datta; William C Ratcliff; Billions of years before eukaryotes took their first multicellular steps

Multicellularity also enabled vast phenotypic expansion and diversification, primarily via cell differentiation and temporal development of morphological structures within an

Scientists in Japan have found a type of bacteria in a cave that exhibits multicellular behavior and a unique, two-phase life cycle. The bacterium, HS-3, was isolated from a limestone cave wall that is periodically submerged

For example, microbes called cyanobacteria form complex chains of cells. And under stress, single-cell Myxococcus bacteria come together to form a mobile, stalked fruiting body, allowing them to move in search of better

Illuminating a new path to multicellularity; Loading Please wait, while we are loading the content Year: 2022, Volume: 11

@article {10.7554/eLife.83296, article_type = {journal}, title = {Cave Bacteria: Illuminating a new path to multicellularity}, author = {Datta, Sayantan and Ratcliff

Similarly, the fungi have acquired their multicellularity later than the animals, after more than one hundred million years and their multicellularity has been developed during their

Illuminating a new path to multicellularity.

A new species of multicellular bacteria found in a cave is giving us clues about how multicellular organisms arise.

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A new species of multicellular bacteria broadens our understanding of prokaryotic multicellularity and provides insight into how multicellular organisms arise.

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Rod-shaped cells burst out from the microbial “body” when submerged in water. Kouhei Mizuno. Unlike other known forms of multicellular bacteria, HS-3 didn’t just have

A bacterium with very primitive multicellularity (even compared to cyanobacteria and myxobacteria – acknowledged geniuses of bacteria multicellularity) and even an uncertain type of social

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A diversity of prokaryotes currently exhibit multicellularity with different generation mechanisms in a variety of contexts of ecology on Earth.

These included chain-forming cyanobacteria that formed softball-sized spheres, packs of bacteria hunting mobile prey together, and filamentous bacteria dividing labor to

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