{"id":16625,"date":"2025-03-31T21:58:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T21:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/eating-family-style-may-have-set-the-stage-for-life-as-we-know-it\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T21:58:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T21:58:26","slug":"eating-family-style-may-have-set-the-stage-for-life-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/eating-family-style-may-have-set-the-stage-for-life-as-we-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating \u2018Family Style\u2019 May Have Set the Stage for Life as We Know It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For a creature made up of only a single cell, the stentor is a giant. This trumpet-shape organism is among the largest unicellular organisms, stretching as long as a sharpened pencil tip. But sometimes it has a hard time vacuuming up the swimming bacteria and microscopic algae it eats to survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">New research reveals that stentors, which are part of a group called protists, may address this challenge by eating \u201cfamily style.\u201d In a paper published on Monday in the journal <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-025-02787-y\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Physics<\/a>, scientists shared the discovery that colonies of stentors can make water flow more quickly around them, helping them suck up more prey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The new findings suggest that, although they lack neurons or brains, stentors can cooperate with one another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThese single-cell organisms can do things that we assume are limited to more complex organisms,\u201d said Shashank Shekhar, a biophysicist at Emory University in Atlanta who is the lead author of the new paper. \u201cThey form this higher order structure, like what we do as humans.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Scientists believe that the ability of single-cell creatures to form groups was a key step that led to the eventual evolution of multicellular life on Earth. And the new findings spotlight the role played by physical conditions \u2014 and the interplay of predators and prey \u2014 in these cellular collaborations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the wild, stentors are found near the surface of ponds. The wider end of their bodies is fringed with ropelike cilia. These cilia can fluctuate in a wavelike pattern to generate water currents that sweep in prey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To visualize these currents in the lab, Dr. Shekhar put drops of milk alongside stentors in a petri dish and then watched how the liquid flew under a microscope. \u201cYou see them create these swirls around their mouths that are just beautiful,\u201d he said. He compared the movements to the whirling cosmos of van Gogh\u2019s \u201cThe Starry Night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When food is scarce, stentors usually live alone. But when food is plentiful, they often congregate in writhing clusters. Little work has been done to explore why the protists form these colonies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Shekhar and his colleagues first examined the interaction between pairs of stentors. Using microscope video footage, they measured the fluid dynamics as two stentors sucked in food particles in a petri dish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The videos revealed an odd pattern: The stentors would drift toward each other before moving away, as if repelled by a magnet. \u201cThey constantly rotate between \u2018I love you, I love you not,\u2019\u201d Dr. Shekhar said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Further analysis then showed that stentor pairs were often in an unequal union, with one of the protists generating a stronger flow than its neighbor. When they got together, the resulting flow was the combined strength of both creatures. This meant that the weaker stentor benefited from the stronger one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Such dynamics among the stentors inspire what Dr. Shekhar calls \u201cpromiscuous behavior.\u201d When they gather in colonies, the stentors are constantly pairing with one another to find stronger partners and increase their feeding capabilities. This behavior increases the colony\u2019s overall flow velocity, allowing the stentors to siphon in larger, fast-moving prey from farther away, and increase the nutrients consumed by the group\u2019s members.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The formation of groups by single-cell organisms to improve survival is viewed as an important early step in the evolution of multicellularity. According to William Ratcliff, an evolutionary biologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology who was not involved in the new paper, once groups of predators like stentors formed, single-cell prey were more susceptible. To survive, the prey often teamed up themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe improved feeding efficiency by group predators like stentors selects for multicellularity in their prey,\u201d Dr. Ratcliff said. \u201cIf you\u2019re a single cell, you\u2019re dinner. But if you can form large groups of cells, now you\u2019re too big to eat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The new findings highlight how physical forces influence biological evolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe always think about genes and chemicals, but there\u2019s also a strong underpinning of physics in the development of multicellular life,\u201d Dr. Shekhar said. \u201cEven something like the flow of water could have affected evolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/science\/stentors-cells-evolution-physics.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a creature made up of only a single cell, the stentor is a giant. 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