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Contents
Foreword
Andrew H. Knoll
Thanks
List of contributors
1. Introduction: The evolution of multicellularity in context
Matthew D. Herron, Peter L. Conlin, and William C. Ratcliff
2. Discover the basics of multicellularity
Maureen A. O’Malley
3. Multi-level selection of the individual organism
Richard E. Michod
4. Life cycles as a central organizing theme for the study of multicellularity
Merlijn Staps, Jordi van Gestel and Corina E. Tarnita
5. Eukaryotic aggregative multicellularity: phylogenetic distribution and case study of its immediate and ultimate cause in Dictyostelia
Pauline Schaap
6. Group training: on the evolution of aggregative multicellularity
Marco La Fortezza, Kaitlin A. Schaal, and Gregory J. Velicer
7. Group maintenance in aggregative multicellularity
Israt Jahan, Tyler Larsen, Joan E. Strassmann, and David C. Queller
8. Group transformation: fruiting and stem formation
Cathleen Broersma and Elizabeth A. Ostrowski
9. Phylogenetics of clonal multicellularity
Michelle M. Leger and Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
10. Group formation: hypotheses for the evolution of clonal multicellularity
Stefania E. Kapsetaki and Roberta M. Fisher
11. Group maintenance in clonal multicellularity: controlling intra-organism evolution
Aurora M. Nedelcu and Alexander N. May
12. Group Transformation: Life History Compromise, Division of Labor, and Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality
Guilhem Doulcier, Katrin Hammerschmidt and Pierrick Bourrat
13. The unicellular ancestors of animals: a history of hypotheses
Thibaut Brunet and Nicole King
14. Convergent evolution of complex multicellularity in fungi
Laszlo G. Nagy
15. Genetic and developmental mechanisms of cell differentiation in algae
Susana M. Coelho and J. Mark Cock
16. The evolution of complex multicellularity in streptophytes
Liam N. Briginshaw and John L. Bowman
17. Multi-species multicellular life cycles
Rebecka Andersson, Hanna Isaksson and Eric Libby
Conclusion: the future of multicellularity research
William C. Ratcliff, Peter L. Conlin and Matthew D. Herron
Index
