Aggregative cycles evolve as a solution to conflicts in social investment.

Multicellular organization is particularly vulnerable to conflicts between different cell types when the body forms from initially isolated cells, as in aggregative multicellular microbes. Like other functions of the multicellular phase, coordinated collective movement can be undermined by conflicts...

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Main Authors: Leonardo Miele, Silvia De Monte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008617