{"id":489,"date":"2021-05-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=489"},"modified":"2021-07-22T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:34:46","slug":"31-choanoflagellates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"31- Choanoflagellates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: 31- Choanoflagellates\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/3Hfnees89iKJ3SXc5C3tXm\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>We often think about animals as an insular group. However, as with any genetic grouping, animals do have close relatives. On the show today, we discuss choanoflagellates- considered the closest relatives to animals today, and possibly a good candidate for what the common ancestor of all animals would have looked like.<\/p>\n<p>Sources for this episode: 1) Campbell, N. A., Urry, L. A., Cain, M. L., Wasserman, S. A., Minorsky, P. V. and Reece, J. B. (2018), Biology: a global approach, 11th edition (Global Edition), Harlow, Pearson Education Limited. 2) The Editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica (2021), Choanoflagellate (online) [Accessed 13\/03\/2021]. 3) Marshall, M., New Scientist (2009), Timeline: The evolution of life (online) [Accessed 13\/03\/2021]. 4) Holland, S. M., Encyclopaedia Britannica (2021), Ordovician Period (online) [Accessed 13\/03\/2021]. 5) Philippe, H., et al. (2009), Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships. Current Biology 19: 706- 712.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often think about animals as an insular group. However, as with any genetic grouping, animals do have close relatives. On the show today, we discuss choanoflagellates- considered the closest relatives to animals today, and possibly a good candidate for what the common ancestor of all animals would have looked like. Sources for this episode: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=489\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;31- Choanoflagellates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}