The choanoflagellates are a group of free-living unicellular and colonial flagellate eukaryotes considered to be the closest living relatives of the animals...

of the choanoflagellates (Choanoflagellatea) and the animals (Animalia, Metazoa). The sister-group relationship between the choanoflagellates and animals...

layer found in sponges. The cell has the closest resemblance to the choanoflagellates which are the closest related single celled protists to the animal...

multicellularity were embedded in the genes of some of these cells, specifically choanoflagellates. These are thought to be the precursors for all animals. They are...

ago (Mya). The choanoflagellates, animals and filastereans group together as the clade Filozoa. Within Filozoa, the choanoflagellates and animals group...

Brachiopod shell Cephalopod shell cirrate shell cuttlebone gladius Lorica Choanoflagellate lorica Protist shell coccosphere coccolith diatom frustule foraminifera...

tissues. This is what plant and animal embryos do as well as colonial choanoflagellates. Because the first multicellular organisms were simple, soft organisms...

then leaves through a hole called the osculum. The single-celled choanoflagellates resemble the choanocyte cells of sponges which are used to drive their...

Cladospongia is a genus of choanoflagellate. The type species (C. elegans) is found in India (Madras). Cladospongia, a new member of the Craspedomonadaceae...

derived from a common ancestor. Animals are the sister group to the choanoflagellates, with which they form the Choanozoa. The dates on the phylogenetic...