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Improved use of a public good selects for the evolution of undifferentiated multicellularity.
eLife - 2 Apr 2013
Koschwanez John H, Foster Kevin R, Murray Andrew W
Abstract excerpt
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 a...
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