The sponge genome confirms that sponges share much the same genetic tool kit for
multicellularity as the rest of the animal kingdom.
Not exact matches
Some biologists refer to this
as multicellular behaviour rather than true
multicellularity, because normal growth occurs when the cells are separate.
The bacteria system in S. rosetta can now be used to answer more specific questions, such
as what the benefit of
multicellularity might be — a question King and her collaborators at Berkeley are now working to answer.
Dysfunction of these mechanisms drives diseases such
as cancers, in which social controls on
multicellularity fail, and autoimmune disorders, in which distinctions between self and non-self are disrupted.