The Evolution of Multicellularity: A Minor Major Transition?
By R. Grosberg, R. R. Strathmann. 2007
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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science
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In Ecology
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- A. E. Douglas
- Scott F. Gilbert
- Diethard Tautz
- Andrew H. Knoll
- T. Fukami
- J. Rawls
- M. Hadfield
In Genetics
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- Diethard Tautz
- Andrew H. Knoll
- T. Fukami
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- H. Feldhaar
In Sociology and Political Science
Citations in the corpus
- The Weng'an biota and the Ediacaran radiation of multicellular eukaryotes (2014, background): “Multicellularity evolved independently at least 25 times among eukaryotes [2-4], and complex multicellularity—characterized by intercellular communication and, commonly, tissue differentiation controlled by regulatory gene networks—occurs in a handful of eukaryotic groups [5, 6].”
- The Multiple Origins of Complex Multicellularity (2011, background): “Volvox carteri, a simple multicellular green alga, provides a genetic hint to the relative ease by which simple multicellularity can evolve (Grosberg & Strathmann 2007); its genome differs only in minor ways from that of its close unicellular relative Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Prochnik et al. 218…”
- Frequent Flaring in the TRAPPIST-1 System—Unsuited for Life? (2017, background): “…(Luger et al. 2017 estimated 3–8 Gyr) could make possible the formation of life in ideal conditions, as the earliest life on Earth dates back to approximately 4 Gyrs (Dodd et al. 2017), although complex life took much longer time to form (see Grosberg & Strathmann 2007 and references therein).”
- Evolution and diversity of plant cell walls: from algae to flowering plants. (2011, background): “Thus the evolution of multicellular complexity appears to be a rare, difficult transition (41).”
- Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences (2013, background): “The origin of multicellularity has been a topic of intense debate in biology, and many hypotheses have been developed about how this evolutionary milestone was achieved (13).”