Selection for synchronized cell division in simple multicellular organisms

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2018.08.038MaRDI QIDQ1712668zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Kamran Kaveh, Carl Veller, Martin A. Nowak, Jason W. Olejarz

Publication date 31 January 2019

Published in Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.06132

zbMATH Keywords

cell divisionevolutionary dynamicsmulticellularitysynchronization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Evolutionary games (91A22) Biological rhythms and synchronization (92B25) Cell biology (92C37) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Abstract: The evolution of multicellularity was a major transition in the history of life on earth. Conditions under which multicellularity is favored have been studied theoretically and experimentally. But since the construction of a multicellular organism requires multiple rounds of cell division, a natural question is whether these cell divisions should be synchronous or not. We study a simple population model in which there compete simple multicellular organisms that grow either by synchronous or asynchronous cell divisions. We demonstrate that natural selection can act differently on synchronous and asynchronous cell division, and we offer intuition for why these phenotypes are generally not neutral variants of each other.

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