What do humans and single-celled choanoflagellates have in common? More than you'd think. New research into the choanoflagellate genome shows these ancient organisms have similar levels of proteins ...

Researchers investigating how single-celled organisms evolved to become multicellular stumbled across a strange phenomenon during their experiments: Single-celled eukaryotes called choanoflagellates, ...

To the surprise of scientists, bacteria can act as an aphrodisiac for one-celled marine organisms notable for being the closest living relative of all animals. This is the first known example of ...

In the story of life on Earth, there have been countless species that have come and gone over the course of billions of years. Life evolved from the simplest of single-celled organisms to the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is worried about a lot of things in our water — polychlorinated biphenyls, dibromochloropropane, Cryptosporidium parvum — to name just a few of the dozens of ...

Choanoflagellates — the single-celled organisms that are most closely related to animals — swarm together to mate in response to a bacterial protein. Nicole King at the University of California, ...