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Digest: Banding together to battle adversaries has its consequences *
Author(s) -
Sudianto Edi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/evo.13750
Subject(s) - biology , battle , evolutionary biology , archaeology , history
Why did life evolve from single‐celled to multicellular organisms? Could there be advantages to this transition? What about associated fitness costs? Kapsetaki and West found that although multicellularity allows Chlorella sorokiniana to avoid predation from similarly‐sized predators, it also reduces their competitiveness when resources are limited.