Can You Hear Me Now? Primitive Single-Celled Microbe Expert In Cellular Communication Networks
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 09:28
in Biology & Nature
When it comes to cellular communication networks, a primitive single-celled microbe that answers to the name of Monosiga brevicollis has a leg up on animals composed of billions of cells. It commands a signaling network more elaborate and diverse than found in any multicellular organism higher up on the evolutionary tree, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered.