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A twelve-step program for evolving multicellularity and a division of labor
Abstract
The volvocine algae provide an unrivalled opportunity to explore details of an evolutionary pathway leading from a unicellular ancestor to multicellular organisms with a division of labor between different cell types. Members of this monophyletic group of green flagellates range in complexity from unicellular Chlamydomonas through a series of extant organisms of intermediate size and complexity to Volvox, a genus of spherical organisms that have thousands of cells and a germ-soma division of labor. It is estimated that these organisms all shared a common ancestor about 50 +/- 20 MYA. Here we outline twelve important ways in which the developmental repertoire of an ancestral unicell similar to modern C. reinhardtii was modified to produce first a small colonial organism like Gonium that was capable of swimming directionally, then a sequence of larger organisms (such as Pandorina, Eudorina and Pleodorina) in which there was an increasing tendency to differentiate two cell types, and eventually Volvox carteri with its complete germ-soma division of labor.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kirk, D. L.
- Venue
- BioEssays
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2005
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 299-310
- ISSN
- 0265-9247 (ISSN-L)
- 1521-1878
- OpenAlex
- W1999445678
- Cited by
- 345
- References
- 35
- FWCI
- 0.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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