One cell, two cell, red cell, blue cell: The persistence of a unicellular stage in multicellular life histories

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 112-116

  Grosberg, Rick K ^a   Strathmann, Richard R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CLONOGENESIS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

EID: 0032030493     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(97)01313-X     Document Type: Article

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