Evolution of multicellularity in Dictyostelia [PDF]
, 2019 The well-orchestrated multicellular life cycle of Dictyostelium discoideum has fascinated biologists for over a century. Self-organisation of its amoebas into aggregates, migrating slugs and fruiting structures by pulsatile cAMP signalling and their ...
Du, Qingyou +3 more
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Bacterial Stigmergy: An Organising Principle of Multicellular Collective Behaviours of Bacteria [PDF]
Scientifica, 2015 The self-organisation of collective behaviours often manifests as dramatic patterns of emergent large-scale order. This is true for relatively “simple” entities such as microbial communities and robot “swarms,” through to more complex self-organised systems such as those displayed by social insects, migrating herds, and many human activities.
Erin S. Gloag +2 more
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Microbial Cell, 2018 Filamentous, heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria are multicellular organisms in which growth requires the activity of two interdependent cell types that exchange nutrients and regulators.
Félix Ramos-León +3 more
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Noise-driven cell differentiation and the emergence of spatiotemporal patterns.
PLoS ONE, 2020 The emergence of phenotypic diversity in a population of cells and their arrangement in space and time is one of the most fascinating features of living systems.
Hadiseh Safdari +5 more
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Integrating Horizontal Gene Transfer and Common Descent to Depict Evolution and Contrast It with ‘‘Common Design [PDF]
, 2010 Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) and common descent interact in space and time. Because events of HGT co-occur with phylogenetic evolution, it is difficult to depict evolutionary patterns graphically. Tree-like representations of life’s diversification are
Espinosa, Avelina +1 more
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Toward major evolutionary transitions theory 2.0 [PDF]
, 2015 The impressive body of work on the major evolutionary transitions in the last 20 y calls for a reconstruction of the theory although a 2D account (evolution of informational systems and transitions in individuality) remains.
Szathmáry, Eörs
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In the beginning was the word: How terminology drives our understanding of endosymbiotic organelles
Microbial Cell, 2019 The names we give objects of research, to some extent, predispose our ways of thinking about them. Misclassifications of Oomycota, Microsporidia, Myxosporidia, and Helicosporidia have obviously affected not only their formal taxonomic names, but also the
Miroslav Oborník
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Considering Intra-individual Genetic Heterogeneity to Understand Biodiversity [PDF]
, 2019 In this chapter, I am concerned with the concept of Intra-individual Genetic Hetereogeneity (IGH) and its potential influence on biodiversity estimates. Definitions of biological individuality are often indirectly dependent on genetic sampling -and vice ...
A Cárdenas-Flores +69 more
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Bacterial Programmed Cell Death and Multicellular Behavior in Bacteria
PLoS Genetics, 2006 Traditionally, programmed cell death (PCD) is associated with eukaryotic multicellular organisms. However, recently, PCD systems have also been observed in bacteria. Here we review recent research on two kinds of genetic programs that promote bacterial cell death. The first is mediated by mazEF, a toxin-antitoxin module found in the chromosomes of many
Hanna Engelberg-Kulka +3 more
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Bacterial marginolactones trigger formation of algal gloeocapsoids, protective aggregates on the verge of multicellularity [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 Photosynthetic microorganisms including the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii are essential to terrestrial habitats as they start the carbon cycle by conversion of CO 2 to energy-rich organic carbohydrates.
Mario K. C. Krespach +7 more
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