• DOI:10.1146/annurev.genet.35.102401.090145
Corpus ID: 18276422

Building a multicellular organism.

@article{Kaiser2001BuildingAM,
  title={Building a multicellular organism.},
  author={Dale Kaiser},
  journal={Annual review of genetics},
  year={2001},
  volume={35},
  pages={
          103-23
        }
}

Dale Kaiser

Published 2001

Medicine, Biology

Annual review of genetics

Multicellular organisms appear to have arisen from unicells numerous times. Multicellular cyanobacteria arose early in the history of life on Earth. Multicellular forms have since arisen independently in each of the kingdoms and several times in some phyla. If the step from unicellular to multicellular life was taken early and frequently, the selective advantage of multicellularity may be large. By comparing the properties of a multicellular organism with those of its putative unicellular… CONTINUE READING

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