An evolutionary scenario for the transition to undifferentiated multicellularity.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on January 23, 2003

Authors

Thomas Pfeiffer1, Sebastian Bonhoeffer

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1: Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland.

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