Improved use of a public good selects for the evolution of undifferentiated multicellularity

We do not know how or why multicellularity evolved. We used the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to ask whether nutrients that must be digested extracellularly select for the evolution of undifferentiated multicellularity. Because yeast use invertase to hydrolyze sucrose extracellularly and...

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Main Authors: Koschwanez, J, Foster, K, Murray, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications 2013