ArticleFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2021
Quiescence Through the Prism of Evolution.
Article in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- "Quiescence" in the resting zone of the growth plate: a systematic review.Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio) · 2026Pooled it
- Constraints on the G1/S transition pathway may favor selection of multicellularity as a passenger phenotype.eLife · 2026Article
- A phenotype-based cell culture model of melanoma cells that persist as residual disease after therapies leading to recurrence.Research square · 2026Article
- Prolonged starvation deepens quiescence in Vasa2/Piwi1-expressing cells of a sea anemone.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Ecological History Shapes Transcriptome Variation in QuiescentBiomolecules · 2025Article
- Quiescence Multiverse.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- Cancer Prevalence across Vertebrates.Cancer discovery · 2025Article
- Cancer Prevalence Across Vertebrates.Research square · 2023Article
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- Cell quiescence in planarian stem cells, interplay between p53 and nutritional stimuli.Open biology · 2022Article
- To Die or Not to Die-Regulated Cell Death and Survival in Cyanobacteria.Microorganisms · 2022Review
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Abstract
Being able to reproduce and survive is fundamental to all forms of life. In primitive unicellular organisms, the emergence of quiescence as a reversible proliferation arrest has most likely improved cell survival under unfavorable environmental conditions. During evolution, with the repeated appearances of multicellularity, several aspects of unicellular quiescence were conserved while new quiescent cell intrinsic abilities arose. We propose that the formation of a microenvironment by neighboring cells has allowed disconnecting quiescence from nutritional cues. In this new context, non-proliferative cells can stay metabolically active, potentially authorizing the emergence of new quiescent cell properties, and thereby favoring cell specialization. Through its co-evolution with cell specialization, quiescence may have been a key motor of the fascinating diversity of multicellular complexity.
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