How do simple cells make complex patterns? We discovered a key piece in cyanobacteria—an ancient enzyme repurposed to activate a pattern-forming signal. A conserved signaling strategy, showing how nature reuses tools to build multicellularity. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Co-option of an ancestral peptidase controls developmental patterning in multicellular cyanobacteriaDevelopmental biologywww.cell.com
