Emergence of proto-organisms from bistable stochastic differentiation and adhesion

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 13, Issue 117, 2016, Pages

  Duran Nebreda, Salva ^a,b   Bonforti, Adriano ^a,b   Montañez, Raú ^a,b   Valverde, Sergi ^a,b   Solé, Ricard ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Evolution; Major transitions; Multicellularity

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; AGGREGATES; METABOLITES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COMPLEXITY; DIFFERENTIATED CELLS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HETEROGENEOUS POPULATIONS; MULTICELLULAR AGGREGATES; MULTICELLULARITY; ORGANIZATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

BIOLOGY;

TOXIN;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NUTRIENT; ORGANISMS; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTO ORGANISM; TOXIC WASTE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84969922466     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0108     Document Type: Article

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