The order of trait emergence in the evolution of cyanobacterial multicellularity
K. Hammerschmidt, G. Landan, F. D. K. Tria, J. Alcorta, T. Dagan
This paper examines the evolution of cyanobacterial multicellularity, finding nitrogen fixation as the primary driver that enabled the transition from unicellular to multicellular forms through metabolic specialization and division of labor.
bioRxiv · Nov 16, 2020Evolutionary Biology