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Title:

Multicellularity : origins and evolution / Niklas, Karl J., and Stuart A. Newman, eds.; foreword by John T. Bonner.

Publisher:

The MIT Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Evolution (Biology)
Cells--Evolution.
Self-organizing systems.

Other Authors:

Niklas, Karl J., editor.
Newman, Stuart (Stuart A)., editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Foreword : the evolution of multicellularity / John Tyler Bonner -- I. Functional and molecular predispositions to multicellularity. Fossils, feeding, and the evolution of complex multicellularity / Andrew H. Knoll and Daniel J.G. Lahr -- Alternative splicing, intrinsically disordered proteins, calmodulin, and the evolution of multicellularity / Karl J. Niklas and A. Keith Dunker -- II. Plants and related theory. The mechanistic basis for the evolution of soma during the transition to multicellularity in the volvocine algae / Stephan G. K©œnig and Aurora M. Nedelcu -- Physicochemical factors in the organization of multicellular aggregates and plants / Juan Antonio Arias del Angel, Eugenio Azpeitia, Mariana Ben©Ưtez, Ana E. Escalante, Valeria Hern©Łndez-Hern©Łndez, and Emilio Mora Van Cauwelaert -- Angiosperm multicellularity : the whole, the parts, and the sum / Ottoline Leyser --
III. Amoebozoa, fungi, and related theory. Cellular slime mold development as a paradigm for the transition from unicellular to multicellular life / Vidyanand Nanjundiah -- Trade-offs drive the evolution of increased complexity in nascent multicellular digital organisms / Peter L. Conlin and William C. Ratcliff -- The paths to artificial multicellularity : from physics to evolution / Salva Duran-Nebreda, Ra©ðl Monta©łez, Adriano Bonforti, and Ricard Sol©♭ -- IV. Metazoa and related theory. What are the genomes of premetazoan lineages telling us about the origin of metazoa? / I©łaki Ruiz-Trillo -- Sponges as the Rosetta stone of colonial-to-multicellular transition / Maja Adamska -- A scenario for the origin of multicellular organisms : perspective from multilevel consistency dynamics / Kunihiko Kaneko -- Multicellularity, the emergence of animal body plans, and the stabilizing role of the egg / Stuart A. Newman --
V. Philosophical aspects of multicellularity. Integrating constitution and interaction in the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms / Argyris Arnellos and Alvaro Moreno -- Explaining the origins of multicellularity : between evolutionary dynamics and developmental mechanisms / Alan C. Love.

Series:

Vienna series in theoretical biology

ISBN:

0262034158 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262034159 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)926821005

LCCN:

2015038382

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)