Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellular Life Principles and mechanisms /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ruiz-Trillo, Iñaki (Editor), Nedelcu, Aurora M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Advances in Marine Genomics, 2
• Subjects: Environment.; Developmental biology.; Evolutionary biology.; Marine sciences.; Freshwater.; Marine & Freshwater Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Developmental Biology.

The book integrates our understanding of the factors and processes underlying the evolution of multicellularity by providing several complementary perspectives (both theoretical and experimental) and using examples from various lineages in which multicellularity evolved. Recent years marked an incre...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1: Multicellularity in the tree of life
• Part 2. Model-systems
• Part 3: Theoretical approaches
• Part 4: Genomics insights
• Part 5: Molecular mechanisms.