RESEARCH ARTICLE Multilevel selection favors fragmentation modes that maintain cooperative interactions in multispecies communities
Reproduction is one of the requirements for evolution and a defining feature of life. Yet, across the tree of life, organisms reproduce in many different ways. Groups of cells (e.g., multicellular organisms, colonial microbes, or multispecies biofilms) divide by releasing propagules that can be sing...
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Public Library of Science
2021
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