Evolution of multicellular life cycles under costly fragmentation
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Fragmentation modes and the evolution of life cycles
Reproduction is a defining feature of living systems. To reproduce, aggregates of biological units (e.g., multicellular organisms or colonial bacteria) must fragment into smaller parts. Fragmentation modes in nature range from binary fission in bacteria to collective-level fragmentation and the production of unicellular propagules in multicellular organisms. Despite this apparent ubiquity, the ...
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1 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, August-Thienemann-Str. 2, 24306 Plön, Germany 2 GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Fishes, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany 3 Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI ParisTech), CNRS UMR 8231, PSL Research University, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France 4 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS Computational Biology
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1553-7358
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008406