linkedin post 2018-10-29 04:59:52
YEAST CO-OPTED FUNCTION. "Apoptosis rapidly evolved a new, co-opted function in our multicellular yeast with no obvious parallel in the unicellular ancestor. Similarly, the existence of apoptosis-like cellular suicide in the unicellular ancestors of metazoans may be an important preadaptation, facilitating the evolution of complex multicellularity." http://www.pnas.org/content/109/5/1595.full View in LinkedIn