(Phys.org)—The evolution of multicellularity marks one of the most profound evolutionary developments contributing to the appearance of human and animal life on the planet. However, with ...

An amoeba contributes to its own downfall. The research team led by Pierre Stallforth, professor at the University of Jena and head of department at the Leibniz-HKI, has now identified a ...

Amoebas are smarter than they look, and a team of US physicists think they know why. The group has built a simple electronic circuit that is capable of the same "intelligent" behaviour as Physarum ...

Time-lapse photography confirmed the amoebas were vampyrellids. But they didn’t feed like other microscopic vampires. The unicellular blobs engulfed and split apart Closterium algae cells ...

3D structure of the social amoeba genome sheds light on the transition to multicellularity. Story by Oleg Sherbakov • 3w. ... "Dictyostelium is a unicellular creature.

(Although unicellular, amoebas have complex-enough cells to be categorized as complex life. They have histones.) By comparing the genome of the Medusavirus with the amoeba it infects, ...

Rhabdamoeba marina (R. marina) is a small marine amoeba, first discovered and described in England in 1921. The amoeboid cells of R. marina, characterized by their near immobility, can produce ...

Ancient fossil tracks could be the handiwork of oversized amoebas that existed 1.8 billion years ago ... Matz believes that ancestors of his unicellular “sea grapes” explain the tracks better.

These unicellular amoeba behavior studies and many multicellular experiments follow the experimental conditioning concepts established by the Russian-Soviet researcher Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936).

Amoebae diversified at least 750 million years ago, far earlier than expected Reconstitution of Amoebozoa's evolution shows significant Precambrian species diversity; this study changes the view ...