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The origins of multicellular organisms.

Evolution & development - 1 Jan 2013

Niklas Karl J, Newman Stuart A

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Multicellularity has evolved in several eukaryotic lineages leading to plants, fungi, and animals. Theoretically, in each case, this involved (1) cell-to-cell adhesion with an alignment-of-fitness among cells, (2) cell-to-cell communication, cooperation, and specialization with an export-of-fitness to a multicellular organism, and (3) in some cases, a transition from "simple" to "complex" multicellularity. When...

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PMID: 23331916
DOI: 10.1111/ede.12013

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