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CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue 6, Pages 646-653Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2010.10.005
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- JSPS [20247032, 22570203]
- National Science Foundation [IBN 0744719]
- Max Planck Society
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20247032, 22570203] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Volvox Chlamydomonas, and their close relatives - collectively the volvocine green algae - comprise an excellent system for investigating the origins of developmental complexity Over a relatively short period of time Volvox evolved an impressive suite of developmental traits including asymmetric cell division, multicellularity with germ-soma division of labor, embryonic morphogenesis, and oogamy Recent molecular genetic analyses of important developmental genes and comparative analyses of the fully sequenced Volvox and Chlamydomonas genomes have provided important insights into how these and other traits came to be Surprisingly the acquisition of much of the developmental innovation in this family seems to have involved relatively minor tinkering with the ancestral unicellular blueprint
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