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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-410877173da74b5ea7f7f0a6b3a21b732022-12-22T02:05:19ZengeLife Sciences Publications LtdeLife2050-084X2013-04-01210.7554/eLife.00655A sticky solutionDavid Gresham0Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, United StatesSelection 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.https://elifesciences.org/articles/00655MulticellularityExperimental evolutionEvolution of cooperation |
| spellingShingle | David Gresham A sticky solution eLife Multicellularity Experimental evolution Evolution of cooperation |
| title | A sticky solution |
| title_full | A sticky solution |
| title_fullStr | A sticky solution |
| title_full_unstemmed | A sticky solution |
| title_short | A sticky solution |
| title_sort | sticky solution |
| topic | Multicellularity Experimental evolution Evolution of cooperation |
| url | https://elifesciences.org/articles/00655 |
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