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Nicole King is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Environmental Science. Within these areas, their work focuses on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Genetics, and Immunology.

The main research topics explored by Nicole King include:

  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
  • Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Nicole King has contributed to a number of scientific publications with a focus on protists and related cellular and molecular biology. Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology," 2020, published in Nature Methods
  • "A flagellate-to-amoeboid switch in the closest living relatives of animals," 2021, published in eLife
  • "Genome editing enables reverse genetics of multicellular development in the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta," 2020, published in eLife
  • "Biophysical principles of choanoflagellate self-organization," 2020, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "STING mediates immune responses in the closest living relatives of animals," 2021, published in eLife

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common co-authors include David S. Booth, Maxwell C. Coyle, Florentine U. Rutaganira, Thibaut Brunet, and Jacob L. Steenwyk.

Nicole King's publications are often found in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Preprints.org, eLife, Nature Methods, and Current Biology. These journals reflect their engagement with both preprint servers and peer-reviewed publications in molecular biology and related disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

    Margaret McFall-Ngai;Michael G. Hadfield;Thomas C. G. Bosch;Hannah V. Carey

  • Genome-scale approaches to resolving incongruence in molecular phylogenies

    Antonis Rokas;Barry L. Williams;Nicole King;Sean B. Carroll

  • The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans.

    Nicole King;M Jody Westbrook;Susan L Young;Alan Kuo

  • Early origins and evolution of microRNAs and Piwi-interacting RNAs in animals

    Andrew Grimson;Mansi Srivastava;Bryony Fahey;Ben J. Woodcroft

  • A Large and Consistent Phylogenomic Dataset Supports Sponges as the Sister Group to All Other Animals

    Paul Simion;Hervé Philippe;Hervé Philippe;Denis Baurain;Muriel Jager

  • The Unicellular Ancestry of Animal Development

    Nicole King

  • Evolution of Key Cell Signaling and Adhesion Protein Families Predates Animal Origins

    Nicole King;Christopher T. Hittinger;Sean B. Carroll

  • Early evolution of animal cell signaling and adhesion genes

    Scott A. Nichols;William Dirks;John S. Pearse;Nicole King

  • The Origin of Animal Multicellularity and Cell Differentiation

    Thibaut Brunet;Nicole King

  • Diverse evolutionary paths to cell adhesion

    Monika Abedin;Nicole King

  • Cell differentiation and morphogenesis in the colony-forming choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta.

    Mark J. Dayel;Rosanna A. Alegado;Stephen R. Fairclough;Tera C. Levin

  • The premetazoan ancestry of cadherins.

    Monika Abedin;Nicole King

  • Premetazoan genome evolution and the regulation of cell differentiation in the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta

    Stephen R Fairclough;Zehua Chen;Eric Kramer;Qiandong Zeng

  • Ancient origin of the integrin-mediated adhesion and signaling machinery

    Arnau Sebé-Pedrós;Andrew J. Roger;Franz B. Lang;Nicole King

  • A receptor tyrosine kinase from choanoflagellates: Molecular insights into early animal evolution

    Nicole King;Sean B. Carroll

  • A bacterial sulfonolipid triggers multicellular development in the closest living relatives of animals

    Rosanna A Alegado;Laura W Brown;Shugeng Cao;Renee K Dermenjian

  • The origins of multicellularity: a multi-taxon genome initiative

    Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo;Gertraud Burger;Peter W.H. Holland;Nicole King

  • Origin of metazoan cadherin diversity and the antiquity of the classical cadherin/β-catenin complex

    Scott Anthony Nichols;Brock William Roberts;Daniel Joseph Richter;Stephen Robert Fairclough

  • The Genomic and Cellular Foundations of Animal Origins

    Daniel J. Richter;Nicole King

  • Author response: A bacterial sulfonolipid triggers multicellular development in the closest living relatives of animals

    Rosanna A Alegado;Laura W Brown;Shugeng Cao;Renee K Dermenjian

Frequent Co-Authors

Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo Pompeu Fabra University
Jon Clardy
Jon Clardy Harvard University
Kent L. McDonald
Kent L. McDonald University of California, Berkeley
Arnab Pain
Arnab Pain King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Antonis Rokas
Antonis Rokas Vanderbilt University
Sean B. Carroll
Sean B. Carroll University of Maryland, College Park
Gertraud Burger
Gertraud Burger University of Montreal
B. Franz Lang
B. Franz Lang University of Montreal
Roman Stocker
Roman Stocker ETH Zurich
Daniel S. Rokhsar
Daniel S. Rokhsar University of California, Berkeley

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