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ArticleEvolution letters2024

Experimental evolution of multicellularity via cuboidal cell packing in fission yeast.

Rozenn M Pineau, Penelope C Kahn, Dung T Lac, Tom E R Belpaire, Mia G Denning, Whitney Wong, William C Ratcliff, G Ozan Bozdag

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Article in Evolution letters, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Rozenn M PineauSchool of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0275-9080
Penelope C KahnDepartment of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Dung T LacSchool of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8480-7701
Tom E R BelpaireDivision of Mechatronics, Biostatistics, and Sensors, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5211-0867
Mia G DenningSchool of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9109-6040
Whitney WongSchool of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States.
William C RatcliffSchool of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6837-8355
G Ozan BozdagSchool of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0931-2399

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Abstract

The evolution of multicellularity represents a major transition in life's history, enabling the rise of complex organisms. Multicellular groups can evolve through multiple developmental modes, but a common step is the formation of permanent cell-cell attachments after division. The characteristics of the multicellular morphology that emerges have profound consequences for the subsequent evolution of a nascent multicellular lineage, but little prior work has investigated these dynamics directly. Here, we examine a widespread yet understudied emergent multicellular morphology: cuboidal packing. Extinct and extant multicellular organisms across the tree of life have evolved to form groups in which spherical cells divide but remain attached, forming approximately cubic subunits. To experimentally investigate the evolution of cuboidal cell packing, we used settling selection to favor the evolution of simple multicellularity in unicellular, spherical

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convergent evolutioncuboidal packingmulticellularitySchizosaccharomyces pombe

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PMCPMC11827335

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