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Acknowledgments

I thank the Broad Institute and the investigators of “the Origins of Multicellularity Sequencing Project, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT” (http://www.broadinstitute.org/) for making data publicly available. I also thank Yanhong Zhang for excellent technical assistance and for critical reading of the manuscript.

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Cai, X. P2X receptor homologs in basal fungi. Purinergic Signalling 8, 11–13 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11302-011-9261-8

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