English: Temporally alternating life cycles of unicellular holozoans. Life stages of the ichthyosporean Creolimax fragrantissima. Single-nucleated amoebae disperse until they settle and encyst. The rounded cell undergoes multiple rounds of synchronous nuclear division (coenocytic division) without cytoplasmic division. Nuclei are later arranged at the periphery of the cell as a large central vacuole grows. Finally, the coenocyte cellularizes and new amoebas are released to start the cycle over again.
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The origin of animals: an ancestral reconstruction of the unicellular-to-multicellular transition. In: Open Biology, published by The Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsob.2003591.
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Núria Ros-Rocher, Alberto Pérez-Posada, Michelle M. Legerand Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
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Temporally alternating life cycles of unicellular holozoans. Life stages of the ichthyosporean ''Creolimax fragrantissima''.
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