Colonies of these choanoflagellates — members of a group considered to be the closest living relatives of all animals — have their own unique microbiomes.
Robert Sanders
Bizarre Organism From a Toxic Lake Is a Missing Link For Complex Life
Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the missing link between single cell and multicellular life - Barroeca monosierra
Anton Petrov
0:00 Mono lake discovery
0:55 Missing step between unicellular and multicellular life
1:20 Choanoflagellates
2:30 Complex colonies
3:30 Simplest animal for comparison
4:30 Colonial behavior never seen before
5:40 Microbiome discovery suggest unusual symbiosis
6:45 Similarity to embryos
7:30 What are these bacteria for though?
8:50 Conclusions
Wow, that’s some pretty wild news I just caught up with. Pretty amazing, though consistent. But now we have the details.
I’m happy to say I visited Mono Lake and walked its shores a couple times as a young man, back in those California days.