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A sticky solution

Selection favours single-celled mutants that stick together when a sugar needed for growth is in short supply, suggesting that multicellular life may have evolved as a by-product of selection for more efficient usage of resources.

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Autor principal: Gresham, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3614024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23577236
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00655
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spelling pubmed-36140242013-04-10 A sticky solution Gresham, David eLife Genomics and Evolutionary Biology Selection favours single-celled mutants that stick together when a sugar needed for growth is in short supply, suggesting that multicellular life may have evolved as a by-product of selection for more efficient usage of resources. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2013-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3614024/ /pubmed/23577236 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00655 Text en Copyright © 2013, Gresham http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3614024/
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