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SUBMITTER: Gulli JG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6685537 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gulli Jordan G JG Herron Matthew D MD Ratcliff William C WC
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 20190415 5
Cooperation is a classic solution to hostile environments that limit individual survival. In extreme cases this may lead to the evolution of new types of biological individuals (e.g., eusocial super-organisms). We examined the potential for interindividual cooperation to evolve via experimental evolution, challenging nascent multicellular "snowflake yeast" with an environment in which solitary multicellular clusters experienced low survival. In response, snowflake yeast evolved to form cooperati ...[more]