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The evolution of germ-soma specialization under different genetic and environmental effects

2021-04-04

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Division of labor exists at different levels of biological organization - from cell colonies to human societies. One of the simplest examples of the division of labor in multicellular organisms is germ-soma specialization, which plays a key role in the evolution of organismal complexity. Here we formulate and study a general mathematical model exploring the emergence of germ-soma specialization in colonies of cell...

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Literature Corpus work: ad3551c7-6bac-570f-b8bf-8087da929f92
DOI: 10.1101/2021.04.02.438224

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