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Bacterial Ventures into Multicellularity: Collectivism through Individuality.

PLoS biology - 1 Jun 2015

van Vliet Simon, Ackermann Martin

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Multicellular eukaryotes can perform functions that exceed the possibilities of an individual cell. These functions emerge through interactions between differentiated cells that are precisely arranged in space. Bacteria also form multicellular collectives that consist of differentiated but genetically identical cells. How does the functionality of these collectives depend on the spatial arrangement of the...

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PMID: 26038821
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002162
PMCID: PMC4454668

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