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Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular ciliate
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- Metabolically driven flows enable exponential growth in macroscopic multicellular yeast.Science advances · 2025Article
- A close unicellular relative reveals aggregative multicellularity was key to the evolution of animals.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Flow physics of nutrient transport drives functional design of ciliates.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Metabolically-driven flows enable exponential growth in macroscopic multicellular yeast.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Evolution of multicellularity from early unicellular ancestors is one of the most important transitions since the origin of life. Multicellularity is associated with enhanced nutrient uptake, better defense against predation, cell specialization and division of labor. While many single-celled organisms exhibit both solitary and colonial forms, the organizing principles governing the transition and the benefits endowed by the colonial states are less clear. Here, we use the suspension-feeding unicellular protist
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