Rapid transition towards the division of labor via evolution of developmental plasticity

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Gavrilets, Sergey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONY SIZE; DIVISION OF LABOR; EUSOCIAL INSECTS; EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITIONS; MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS; MULTIPLE CELL TYPES; MUTATION RATES; RAPID TRANSITIONS; SIMPLE++; UNDIFFERENTIATED CELLS;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL VIABILITY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; GENE CONTROL; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CELL SURVIVAL; FERTILITY; GERM CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FERTILITY; GERM CELLS; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77955477943     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000805     Document Type: Article

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