#multicellularbacteria — Public Fediverse posts
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#MulticellularBacteria Evolve Defenses that Resemble the Immune System https://www.the-scientist.com/multicellular-bacteria-evolve-defenses-that-resemble-the-immune-system-71807
Targeted hypermutation of putative antigen sensors in multicellular bacteria https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2316469121
"the team chose pink berries, which are millimeter sized aggregates of #bacteria living on the floor of #SaltMarshes in #WoodsHole, #Massachusetts that tend to evolve slowly... they’re wild, but they’re not so ephemeral and changing that we can’t ask mechanistic questions"
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Did flooding force bacterial #multicellularity? https://micro-bites.org/2022/11/07/did-flooding-force-bacterial-multicellularity/ #MulticellularBacteria #Bacteria #Microbes #Caves
Paper: Novel multicellular #prokaryote discovered next to an #underground stream https://elifesciences.org/articles/71920
How life went from one cell to #multicellular is a hotly debated topic among #scientists... A #limestone #cave in the northern #Kyushu Island of #Japan was hiding one clue: a fascinating new organism!