Evolution of multicellular life cycles under costly fragmentation.

A fascinating wealth of life cycles is observed in biology, from unicellularity to the concerted fragmentation of multicellular units. However, the understanding of factors driving their evolution is still limited. We show that costs of fragmentation have a major impact on the evolution of life cycl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yuriy Pichugin, Arne Traulsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-11-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008406