Experimental evolution reveals that high relatedness protects multicellular cooperation from cheaters

Experimental demonstration of the benefits of somatic fusion and the consequences for allorecognition

(2015) Eric Bastiaans et al.   EVOLUTION

Concurrent coevolution of intra-organismal cheaters and resisters

(2015) S. R. Levin et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Selection against somatic parasitism can maintain allorecognition in fungi

(2014) Tamas Czárán et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Life cycles, fitness decoupling and the evolution of multicellularity

(2014) Katrin Hammerschmidt et al.   NATURE

Group Formation, Relatedness, and the Evolution of Multicellularity

(2013) Roberta M. Fisher et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

TOWARD AN EVOLUTIONARY DEFINITION OF CHEATING

(2013) Melanie Ghoul et al.   EVOLUTION

Public goods dilemma in asexual ant societies

(2013) S. Dobata et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experimental evolution of an alternating uni- and multicellular life cycle in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2013) William C. Ratcliff et al.   Nature Communications

Nuclear and Genome Dynamics in Multinucleate Ascomycete Fungi

(2011) Marcus Roper et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

High Relatedness Is Necessary and Sufficient to Maintain Multicellularity in Dictyostelium

(2011) J. J. Kuzdzal-Fick et al.   SCIENCE

Cheating does not explain selective differences at high and low relatedness in a social amoeba

(2010) Gerda Saxer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY