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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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications
2013
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