Very excited that our new paper is out, showing that the massive expansions in the chemical arsenals of bacteria and fungi are associated with the emergence of multicellularity. This was an amazing collaboration with @raufs.bsky.social and @lkalan.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Complex multicellularity is linked with expanded specialized metabolite production in microorganisms - Nature Microbiology
The evolutionary emergence of complex multicellularity in bacteria and fungi, such as the ability for mycelial growth, is strongly associated with increased genomic carriage of biosynthetic machinery ...
