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Enter the absorbing world of sponges - Wellcome Sanger Institute Blog
Enter the absorbing world of sponges, the intricate animals that have evolved to inhabit all corners of our Earth’s waterways and oceans. Thanks to a worldwide collaboration of sponge scientists throu...
sangerinstitute.blog
July 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
...expanding taxon sampling of the environment by more than 300% and resulting in identification of multiple previously unknown major eukaryotic lineages. 2/2

Read the study: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Phylogenomic tree of Cercozoa based on single-cell transcriptomes from 100 uncultured cells - BMC Biology
Background Cercozoa are single-celled eukaryotes (protists) and are part of the supergroup Rhizaria. Cercozoans have vastly different morphologies and are defined by their phylogenetic affinity. While...
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February 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
New study co-authored by Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative Investigator Dr. Patrick Keeling used single-cell gene expression analysis to broadly sample uncultured Cercozoa (part of the supergroup Rhizaria)... 1/2 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#aquaticsymbiosis #evolution #discoveryscience
Phylogenomic tree of Cercozoa based on single-cell transcriptomes from 100 uncultured cells - BMC Biology
Background Cercozoa are single-celled eukaryotes (protists) and are part of the supergroup Rhizaria. Cercozoans have vastly different morphologies and are defined by their phylogenetic affinity. While...
link.springer.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM