Evolution: Ancient Fossilized Amoebae Find Their Home in the Tree

Ancestral test morphologies predicted from a new phylogeny of arcellinid amoebae show a striking resemblance to microscopic fossilized tests found worldwide in rocks 790-730 million years old.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Current Biology

• Publication date

  2019-03-18

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2019.02.003PMID 30889393
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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