The evolution of animal cell motility.

Eukaryotic cells use a number of diverse mechanisms to swim through liquid or crawl across solid surfaces. The two most prevalent forms of eukaryotic cell motility are flagellar-dependent swimming and actin-dependent cell migration, both of which are used by animal cells and unicellular eukaryotes alike. Evolutionary cell biologists have used morphological and molecular phenotypes to trace the evolution of flagellar-based swimming. These efforts have resulted in a large body of evidence supporting a single evolutionary origin of the eukaryotic flagellum, an origin that dates back to before the diversification of modern eukaryotes. Actin-dependent crawling, in contrast, involves mutiple distinct molecular mechanisms, the evolution of which is just beginning to be explored.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Current Biology

• Publication date

  2020-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2020.03.026PMID 32428485
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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