Highly regulated, diversifying NTP-dependent biological conflict systems with implications for the emergence of multicellularity

Social cellular aggregation or multicellular organization pose increased risk of transmission of infections through the system upon infection of a single cell. The generality of the evolutionary responses to this outside of Metazoa remains unclear. We report the discovery of several thematically uni...

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Main Authors: Gurmeet Kaur, A Maxwell Burroughs, Lakshminarayan M Iyer, L Aravind
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2020-02-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/52696