Evolution of selfish multicellularity: collective organisation of individual spatio-temporal regulatory strategies

Abstract Background The unicellular ancestors of modern-day multicellular organisms were remarkably complex. They had an extensive set of regulatory and signalling genes, an intricate life cycle and could change their behaviour in response to environmental changes. At the transition to multicellular...

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Main Authors: Renske M. A. Vroomans, Enrico Sandro Colizzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-07-01
Series:BMC Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-023-02133-x