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Life cycles, fitness decoupling and the evolution of multicellularity.

Nature - 6 Nov 2014

Hammerschmidt Katrin, Rose Caroline J, Kerr Benjamin, Rainey Paul B

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Cooperation is central to the emergence of multicellular life; however, the means by which the earliest collectives (groups of cells) maintained integrity in the face of destructive cheating types is unclear. One idea posits cheats as a primitive germ line in a life cycle that facilitates collective reproduction. Here we describe an experiment in which simple cooperating lineages of bacteria were propagated under...

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PMID: 25373677
DOI: 10.1038/nature13884

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