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Cancer across the tree of life: cooperation and cheating in multicellularity

Multicellularity is characterized by cooperation among cells for the development, maintenance and reproduction of the multicellular organism. Cancer can be viewed as cheating within this cooperative multicellular system. Complex multicellularity, and the cooperation underlying it, has evolved indepe...

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Autores principales: Aktipis, C. Athena, Boddy, Amy M., Jansen, Gunther, Hibner, Urszula, Hochberg, Michael E., Maley, Carlo C., Wilkinson, Gerald S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4581024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26056363
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0219