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The Evolution of Developmental Signalling in Dictyostelia from an Amoebozoan Stress Response

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Dictyostelid social amoebas represent one of several groups of genetically divergent lineages that display aggregative multicellularity. In this chapter, we describe the evolution of developmental complexity in Dictyostelia and discuss the signalling mechanisms that control the developmental programme of the model organism Dictyostelium discoideum. We also reconstruct the evolutionary history of these developmental control mechanisms from environmental sensing in the unicellular ancestors of Dictyostelia. Finally, we explore the parameters that define the boundary between uni- and multicellularity.

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YK, CS and HL are supported by project grant BB/G020426/1 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, and ZC and QD by project grant 090276 from the Wellcome Trust.

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    Yoshinori Kawabe, Christina Schilde, Zhi-hui Chen, Qingyou Du, Hajara Lawal & Pauline Schaap

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Kawabe, Y., Schilde, C., Chen, Zh., Du, Q., Lawal, H., Schaap, P. (2015). The Evolution of Developmental Signalling in Dictyostelia from an Amoebozoan Stress Response. In: Ruiz-Trillo, I., Nedelcu, A. (eds) Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellular Life. Advances in Marine Genomics, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9642-2_21

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