Sentences with phrase «of multicellularity»

The King lab at Berkeley has pioneered the exploration of the origins of multicellularity by looking at choanoflagellates for shared characteristics and behaviors conserved by evolution in animals.

So while unicellularity is clearly a successful way of life for many organisms, for others the collective benefit of multicellularity appears to outweigh the loss of individual fitness for each somatic cell that is denied a chance to pass on its particular genome.

And this primal division of reproductive labor has evolutionary consequences: It allows sexual reproduction and fosters genetic diversity and the evolution of multicellularity.

evolved its germ — soma division by repurposing genes initially used for the transition to a simpler form of multicellularity without a germ — soma dichotomy, but found little support for this hypothesis.

This kind of division of labour is one of the hallmarks of multicellularity.

The predator - driven strains developed a different sort of multicellularity from the gravity - induced versions.

These snowflakes grow and divide in a way that provides a clever solution to one of the major pitfalls of multicellularity: the cheater problem, in which lazy cells take advantage of cooperative ones.

Conventionally the term plant implies a taxon with characteristics of multicellularity, cell structure with walls containing cellulose, and organisms capable of photosynthesis.

Interpreting the origins of multicellularity is key to understanding the origins of animals, King says, noting that her research «reaches back much further on the family tree than our common ancestors with other primates.»

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.

I grant, though, that biologists must be fascinated by the evolution of multicellularity, because we are multicellular creatures.

This provides experimental proof that when evolution makes a great leap forward — such as the origin of multicellularity — organisms can diversify rapidly to take advantage of the change.

Extavour's own lab focuses on dissecting insect embryos and ovaries, searching for genetic clues to the origin of multicellularity and the complex organisms that multicellularity made possible, including Homo sapiens.