Certain single-celled organisms have evolved secondarily from multicellular ancestors
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SUPPORTED
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Evidence from experimental and modeling studies on yeast and evolutionary complexity demonstrates that certain single-celled organisms can evolve secondarily from multicellular ancestors.
Evidence for · 4
Adaptive evolutionary trajectories in complexity: Transitions between unicellularity and facultative differentiated multicellularity
2025 · cited by 4
Demonstrates through mathematical models that evolutionary trajectories can result in the loss of complexity and a return to unicellularity.
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Evolutionary trade-offs between unicellularity and multicellularity in budding yeast
2018 · cited by 3
Shows that unicellular yeast strains can evolve secondarily from multicellular clump-forming ancestors.
Evolution of multicellularity and unicellularity in yeast
<i>S. cerevisiae</i>
to study reversibility of evolutionary trajectories
2020 · cited by 2
Examines the reversal of multicellularity in yeast, demonstrating that unicellularity evolves from multicellular clusters when selection pressures change.
Adaptive evolutionary trajectories in complexity: repeated transitions between unicellularity and differentiated multicellularity
2024 · cited by 0
Indicates that adaptive trajectories can lose complexity, leading to transitions from multicellular forms back to unicellularity.