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How 5000 independent rowers coordinate their strokes in order to row into the sunlight: Phototaxis in the multicellular green alga Volvox

BACKGROUND: The evolution of multicellular motile organisms from unicellular ancestors required the utilization of previously evolved tactic behavior in a multicellular context. Volvocine green algae are uniquely suited for studying tactic responses during the transition to multicellularity because...

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Autores principales: Ueki, Noriko, Matsunaga, Shigeru, Inouye, Isao, Hallmann, Armin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920248/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20663212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-8-103