The King Lab

Choanoflagellates and the origin of animals

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Proterospongia sp. ColonyWelcome to the King Lab. We study choanoflagellates, sponges, and the evolution of multicellular animals from their unicellular ancestors.

NEWS:

Graduate student Daniel Richter has received a fellowship from NSF to participate in the Central Europe Summer Research Institute.

The first choanoflagellate genome sequence was recently published in Nature and a reconstruction of ancestral cadherins has been published in Science. Link to publications.