A sticky solution.
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Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 23577236.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.00655 and PMC identifier 3614024.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
Selection favours single-celled mutants that stick together when a sugar needed for growth is in short supply, suggesting that multicellular life may have evolved as a by-product of selection for more efficient usage of resources.
Medical subject headings
- Evolution, Molecular
- Monosaccharide Transport Proteins
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
- Sucrose
- beta-Fructofuranosidase