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Multicellularity makes somatic differentiation evolutionarily stable
2014-10-25
Abstract excerpt
Many multicellular organisms produce two cell lineages: germ cells, whose descendants form the next generation, and somatic cells which support, protect, and disperse the germ cells. This distinction has evolved independently in dozens of multicellular taxa but is absent in unicellular species. We propose that unicellular, soma-producing populations are intrinsically susceptible to invasion by non-differentiating...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e6740af5-80bd-5804-b9ea-ab89f7b0df29
- DOI
- 10.1101/010728