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  1. #MulticellularBacteria Evolve Defenses that Resemble the Immune System the-scientist.com/multicellula

    Targeted hypermutation of putative antigen sensors in multicellular bacteria pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.

    "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"

  2. Did flooding force bacterial #multicellularity? micro-bites.org/2022/11/07/did #MulticellularBacteria #Bacteria #Microbes #Caves

    Paper: Novel multicellular #prokaryote discovered next to an #underground stream elifesciences.org/articles/719

    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!