Autor: Werner E.G. Muller

This volume concentrates on the origin of multicellular animals, Metazoa. Until now, no unequivocal phylogeny has been produced. Therefore, the questions remain: Did Metazoa evolve from the Protozoa …

Inorganic polyphosphates – polymers of orthophosphate linked by high-energy phosphoanhydride bonds – have been found in apparently all forms of life, from bacteria, yeasts and fungi to higher plants …

Recently, new genes and their proteins that revealed striking new insights into the early evolution of multicellular animals have been identified and characterized from members of the lowest metazoan …