Genetic switch between unicellularity and multicellularity in marine yeasts

2026/01/07 by Gakuho Kurita, Kyoka Adachi, Kyoka A. Adachi +2 · 1 voice
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · #Fungal and yeast genetics research #Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis #Protist diversity and phylogeny

paper · doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09881-4

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Citations

• The Origin of Animal Multicellularity and Cell Differentiation
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• Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea
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• Haplotype-based variant detection from short-read sequencing
• The genus Cladosporium

Discussions

• 🌊🧬 A Nature study from the Goshima lab at Nagoya University identifies a central regulator of this switch in marine black yeasts. Myb1 acts as a toggle: lowering levels triggers multicellularity, w [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]