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Improved use of a public good selects for the evolution of undifferentiated multicellularity

We do not know how or why multicellularity evolved. We used the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to ask whether nutrients that must be digested extracellularly select for the evolution of undifferentiated multicellularity. Because yeast use invertase to hydrolyze sucrose extracellularly and...

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Autores principales: Koschwanez, John H, Foster, Kevin R, Murray, Andrew W
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/PMC3614033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23577233
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00367