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CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY
卷 24, 期 -, 页码 21-28出版社
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2014.12.007
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- National Institutes of Health [GM58218]
- John Templeton Foundational Questions in Evolutionary Biology Program
Multicellularity is one of the most prevalent evolutionary innovations and nowhere is this more apparent than in the bacterial world, which contains many examples of multicellular organisms in a surprising array of forms. Due to their experimental accessibility and the large and diverse genomic data available, bacteria enable us to probe fundamental aspects of the origins of multicellularity. Here we discuss examples of multicellular behaviors in bacteria, the selective pressures that may have led to their evolution, possible origins and intermediate stages, and whether the ubiquity of apparently convergent multicellular forms argues for its inevitability.
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