Multicellularity : origins and evolution /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, MA :
The MIT Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Vienna series in theoretical biology.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword : the evolution of multicellularity / John Tyler Bonner
- I. Functional and molecular predispositions to multicellularity. Fossils, feeding, and the evolution of complex multicellularity / Andrew H. Knoll and Daniel J.G. Lahr
- Alternative splicing, intrinsically disordered proteins, calmodulin, and the evolution of multicellularity / Karl J. Niklas and A. Keith Dunker
- II. Plants and related theory. The mechanistic basis for the evolution of soma during the transition to multicellularity in the volvocine algae / Stephan G. König and Aurora M. Nedelcu
- Physicochemical factors in the organization of multicellular aggregates and plants / Juan Antonio Arias del Angel, Eugenio Azpeitia, Mariana Benítez, Ana E. Escalante, Valeria Hernández-Hernández, and Emilio Mora Van Cauwelaert
- Angiosperm multicellularity : the whole, the parts, and the sum / Ottoline Leyser
- III. Amoebozoa, fungi, and related theory. Cellular slime mold development as a paradigm for the transition from unicellular to multicellular life / Vidyanand Nanjundiah
- Trade-offs drive the evolution of increased complexity in nascent multicellular digital organisms / Peter L. Conlin and William C. Ratcliff
- The paths to artificial multicellularity : from physics to evolution / Salva Duran-Nebreda, Raúl Montañez, Adriano Bonforti, and Ricard Solé
- IV. Metazoa and related theory. What are the genomes of premetazoan lineages telling us about the origin of metazoa? / Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
- Sponges as the Rosetta stone of colonial-to-multicellular transition / Maja Adamska
- A scenario for the origin of multicellular organisms : perspective from multilevel consistency dynamics / Kunihiko Kaneko
- Multicellularity, the emergence of animal body plans, and the stabilizing role of the egg / Stuart A. Newman
- V. Philosophical aspects of multicellularity. Integrating constitution and interaction in the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms / Argyris Arnellos and Alvaro Moreno
- Explaining the origins of multicellularity : between evolutionary dynamics and developmental mechanisms / Alan C. Love.