ERC grantee uncovers genetic clue to animals' evolutionary success
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date: 11/05/2016
Project: Unravelling the unicellular prehistory o...
acronym: PREMETAZOANEVOLUTION
See also: CORDIS
We know that animals evolved from their single-cell ancestors. What we don't know is how that happened? What mechanism led to the development of animals' complex bodies? This is one of the unsolved mysteries of the evolution.
ERC grantee Professor Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC) in Barcelona, and a team of researchers have now deciphered the genetic mechanism responsible for the evolutionary success of animals.