• DOI:10.1007/S13752-018-0311-0
Corpus ID: 91622808

The Nature of Programmed Cell Death

@article{Durand2019TheNO,
  title={The Nature of Programmed Cell Death},
  author={P. M. Durand and G. Ramsey},
  journal={Biological Theory},
  year={2019},
  volume={14},
  pages={30-41}
}

P. M. Durand, G. Ramsey

Published 2019

Biology

Biological Theory

In multicellular organisms, cells are frequently programmed to die. This makes good sense: cells that fail to, or are no longer playing important roles are eliminated. From the cell’s perspective, this also makes sense, since somatic cells in multicellular organisms require the cooperation of clonal relatives. In unicellular organisms, however, programmed cell death (PCD) poses a difficult and unresolved evolutionary problem. The empirical evidence for PCD in diverse microbial taxa has spurred… CONTINUE READING

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