{"id":212624,"date":"2025-04-28T09:19:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/this-single-celled-microbe-can-transform-into-a-multicellular-creature"},"modified":"2025-04-28T09:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:19:45","slug":"this-single-celled-microbe-can-transform-into-a-multicellular-creature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/this-single-celled-microbe-can-transform-into-a-multicellular-creature","title":{"rendered":"This Single-Celled Microbe Can Transform Into a Multicellular Creature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hy77gxKV5jk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth\u2019s most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a body into multicellular tissue when the pressure\u2019s on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone,\u201d the international team who made this discovery, led by Brandeis University pathobiologist Theopi Rados, write in their <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.adu0047\">new paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haloferax_volcanii\">Haloferax<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haloferax_volcanii\"> volcanii<\/a> <\/em>is a member of the often-overlooked <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archaea\">archaea<\/a> domain, which looks quite similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bacteria\">bacteria<\/a> and yet have more in common with our own domain, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eukaryote\">eukaryota<\/a>. Multicellularity is common in eukaryotes and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/?p=157210&preview=true\">rare among bacteria<\/a>, and as far as we know, <em>H. volcanii <\/em>is only the second archaeon found to take this multicellular leap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth\u2019s most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a body into multicellular tissue when the pressure\u2019s on. \u201cThe advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone,\u201d the international team who made this discovery, led by Brandeis University pathobiologist Theopi Rados, write in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}