A twelve-step program for evolving multicellularity and a division of labor

BioEssays

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 299-310

  Kirk, David L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL TYPE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CYTOKINESIS; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; FLAGELLATE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ALGA; ANIMAL; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GREEN ALGA; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUDORINA; GONIUM; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PANDORINA; PLEODORINA; PRASINOPHYCEAE; VOLVOX; VOLVOX CARTERI;

ALGAE; ALGAE, GREEN; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 15944402847     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20197     Document Type: Review

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