Unveiling new molecular Opisthokonta diversity : A perspective from evolutionary genomics
Opisthokonta is an eukaryotic supergroup that contains Metazoa, Fungi and their unicellular relatives. Therefore, this group provides an ideal framework to study distinct unicellular-multicellular transitions, among them, the transition towards animal multicellularity. This thesis aims to describe n...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/587085 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/587085 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Opistoconts Origen dels animals Evolució Protistologia Genòmica Single-cell genomics Evolution Animal multicellularity Opisthokonts Choanoflagellates 575 |
| Sumario: | Opisthokonta is an eukaryotic supergroup that contains Metazoa, Fungi and their unicellular relatives. Therefore, this group provides an ideal framework to study distinct unicellular-multicellular transitions, among them, the transition towards animal multicellularity. This thesis aims to describe new Opisthokonta diversity at many different levels, a very neeeded starting point to better understand the evolution of opisthokonts and the origin of multicellularity in animals. In particular, we here described a new genus and species at the onset of Holomycota (Parvularia atlantis), detected new molecular metazoan diversity through a metabarcoding approach, and evaluated the power of single-cell genomics to increment the genomic diversity of choanoflagellates. Overall, this thesis provided new insights into the diversity of Opisthokonta and into the power of single-cell genomics technologies. Finally, our results also have reshaped the phylogeny of choanoflagellates and increased the knowledge of the pre-metazoan genetic tool-kit. |
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