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SUBMITTER: Kuzdzal-Fick JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6686284 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ecology and evolution 20190709 15
Multicellular organisms appeared on Earth through several independent major evolutionary transitions. Are such transitions reversible? Addressing this fundamental question entails understanding the benefits and costs of multicellularity versus unicellularity. For example, some wild yeast strains form multicellular clumps, which might be beneficial in stressful conditions, but this has been untested. Here, we show that unicellular yeast evolve from clump-forming ancestors by propagating samples f ...[more]