Editors:
- Broadens our perspective on a major evolutionary innovation (the origin of multicellularity)
- Summarizes the latest research and theories on how and why multicellularity evolved
- Discusses different types of multicellularity and model-systems, and describes different approaches currently used to understand the evolution of multicellularity
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Marine Genomics (AMGE, volume 2)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Multicellularity in the Tree of Life
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Front Matter
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Model-Systems
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Approaches
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About this book
Reviews
“This volume includes 22 articles organized into five parts describing: research aimed at locating examples of multicellularity in the Tree of Life; model multicellulars; different theoretical approaches to multicellularity; insights from comparative genomics; and insights from research into molecular mechanisms underlying multicellularity. … the collection provides a comprehensive explanation for why there are no simple answers to when multicellularity first appeared, how many times it appeared, or why and how.” (Ellen Clarke, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 91 (3), September, 2016)
“The chapters effectively lead readers through the evidence for multicellularity in the ToL, discuss models systems in depth (especially algae and the choanoflagellates, the latter leading to animal multicellularity), present theoretical approaches, discuss insights from comparative genomic analyses, and summarize understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved. … The book is especially valuable for researchers in or planning to enter the field who seek integrative and novel systems and approaches. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners.” (B. K. Hall, Choice, Vol. 53 (2), October, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
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Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
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Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
Aurora M. Nedelcu
About the editors
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF) in Barcelona. His educational background includes a B.S. in Biology from the University of Barcelona. He earned a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Barcelona and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Dalhousie University (Canada). His current research interests include the study of the molecular mechanisms involved in the origin of multicellular animals, the analysis of genomes of different protists, the study of higher phylogenetic relationships of eukaryotes, and the understanding of the genetic repertoire of the last eukaryotic common ancestor.
Aurora M. Nedelcu is a Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, Canada). She also holds an Adjunct position in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) at the University of Arizona (Tucson, USA) and is an External Faculty in the Center for Evolutionand Cancer at the University of California San Francisco (USA). She received a BSc in Biology from ³Babes-Bolyai² University (Cluj, Romania), and a PhD in Biology from Dalhousie University Halifax, Canada). She completed her postdoctoral training in the Organelle Genome Mega sequencing Lab at the Universite de Montreal and in the EEB Department at the University of Arizona. Her current research interests include understanding the principles and mechanisms involved in the evolution of complexity, multicellularity, cell differentiation, altruism, programmed cell death, and cancer.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellular Life
Book Subtitle: Principles and mechanisms
Editors: Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, Aurora M. Nedelcu
Series Title: Advances in Marine Genomics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9642-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9641-5Published: 09 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0359-6Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9642-2Published: 27 March 2015
Series ISSN: 1879-8012
Series E-ISSN: 1879-8020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 489
Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Marine & Freshwater Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Developmental Biology