ArticleBiology letters2014
Programmed death in a unicellular organism has species-specific fitness effects.
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- Biomolecules Generated During Programmed Cell Death (PCD) Enhance the Capacity of Proliferating Ustilago maydis Cells to Overcome the Negative Impacts of Non-PCD Necromass.Microbial ecology · 2026Article
- Programmed cell death and redox metabolism protect Chlamydomonas reinhardtii populations from the galactic cosmic environment on the Artemis-1 mission.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Coordinated proteome change precedes cell lysis and death in a mat-forming cyanobacterium.The ISME journal · 2023Article
- Species-specific effects and the ecological role of programmed cell death in the microalgaeBiology letters · 2022Article
- Perceived Intensification in Harmful Algal Blooms Is a Wave of Cumulative Threat to the Aquatic Ecosystems.Biology · 2022Review
- The tale of caspase homologues and their evolutionary outlook: deciphering programmed cell death in cyanobacteria.Journal of experimental botany · 2020Article
- Symbiotic Origin of Apoptosis.Results and problems in cell differentiation · 2020Article
- Cell Death in Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2019Review
- Type II-Metacaspases are involved in cell stress but not in cell death in the unicellular green algaMicrobial cell (Graz, Austria) · 2019Article
- An Apoptotic and Endosymbiotic Explanation of the Warburg and the Inverse Warburg Hypotheses.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Review
- "Programmed Cell Death: A Process of Death for Survival" - How Far Terminology Pertinent for Cell Death in Unicellular Organisms.Journal of cell death · 2018Article
- Polintons, virophages and transpovirons: a tangled web linking viruses, transposons and immunity.Current opinion in virology · 2017Review
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Abstract
Programmed cell death (PCD) is an ancient phenomenon and its origin and maintenance in unicellular life is unclear. We report that programmed death provides differential fitness effects that are species specific in the model organism Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Remarkably, PCD in this organism not only benefits others of the same species, but also has an inhibitory effect on the growth of other species. These data reveal that the fitness effects of PCD can depend upon genetic relatedness.
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