The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origins of metazoan multicellularity

The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origins of metazoan multicellularity Nicole King 1,2 , M. Jody Westbrook 1* , Susan L. Young 1* , Alan Kuo 3 , Monika Abedin 1 , Jarrod Chapman 1 , Stephen Fairclough 1 , Uffe Hellsten 3 , Yoh Isogai 1 , Ivica Letunic 4 , Michael Marr 5 , David Pincus 6 , Nicholas Putnam 1 , Antonis Rokas 7 , Kevin J. Wright 1 , Richard Zuzow 1 , William Dirks 1 , Matthew Good 6 , David Goodstein 1 , Derek Lemons 8 , Wanqing Li 9 , Jessica Lyons 1 , Andrea Morris 10 , Scott Nichols 1 , Daniel J. Richter 1 , Asaf Salamov 3 , JGI Sequencing 3 , Peer Bork 4 , Wendell A. Lim 6 , Gerard Manning 11 , W. Todd Miller 9 , William McGinnis 8 , Harris Shapiro 3 , Robert Tjian 1 , Igor V. Grigoriev 3 , Daniel Rokhsar 1,3 Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and the Center for Integrative Genomics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, USA EMBL, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69012 Heidelberg, Germany Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454 Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA Vanderbilt University, Department of Biological Sciences, Nashville, TN 37235, USA Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093 Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 University of Michigan, Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Ann Arbor MI 48109 Razavi Newman Bioinformatics Center, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037 *These authors contributed equally to this work.