The genomic origins of cyanobacterial morphological diversity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 39, September 2026. SignificanceCyanobacteria were Earth’s earliest oxygen-producing organisms, yet the genomic basis of their striking shift between unicellular and multicellular forms has remained unclear. By combining phylogenomics, molecular clocks, and ancestral gene-...
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