The simplest integrated multicellular organism unveiled.

The simplest integrated multicellular organism unveiled.

Volvocine green algae represent the "evolutionary time machine" model lineage for studying multicellularity, because they encompass the whole range of evolutionary transition of multicellularity from unicellular Chlamydomonas to >500-celled Volvox. Multicellular volvocalean species incl...

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Main Authors: Yoko Arakaki, Hiroko Kawai-Toyooka, Yuki Hamamura, Tetsuya Higashiyama, Akira Noga, Masafumi Hirono, Bradley J S C Olson, Hisayoshi Nozaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3859500?pdf=render

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