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Hidden paths to endless forms most wonderful: ecology latently shapes evolution of multicellular development in predatory bacteria.
Communications biology - 16 Sept 2022
La Fortezza Marco, Rendueles Olaya, Keller Heike, Velicer Gregory J
Abstract excerpt
Ecological causes of developmental evolution, for example from predation, remain much investigated, but the potential importance of latent phenotypes in eco-evo-devo has received little attention. Using the predatory bacterium Myxococcus xanthus, which undergoes aggregative fruiting body development upon starvation, we tested whether adaptation to distinct growth environments that do not induce development...
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