Colony level fitness analysis identifies a trade-off between population growth rate and dauer yield in Caenorhabditis elegans
Abstract Background In the evolution from unicellular to multicellular life forms, natural selection favored reduced cell proliferation and even programmed cell death if this increased organismal fitness. Could reduced individual fertility or even programmed organismal death similarly increase the f...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2024-01-01
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| Series: | BMC Ecology and Evolution |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-024-02199-1 |