Analysis of phenotypic evolution in Dictyostelia highlights developmental plasticity as a likely consequence of colonial multicellularity

Keyphrases

• Dictyostelids 100%
• Fruiting Structures 100%
• Dictyostelia 100%
• Multicellularity 100%
• Phenotypic Evolution 100%
• Developmental Plasticity 100%
• Last Common Ancestor 66%
• Morphogenesis 33%
• Amoeba 33%
• Increasing Complexity 33%
• Cell Density 33%
• Size-and-shape 33%
• Social Amoeba 33%
• Encystation 33%
• Development Control 33%
• Fruiting Body 33%
• Colony Formation 33%
• Control Mechanism 33%
• Survival Strategies 33%
• Evolution of multicellularity 33%
• Multicellular Structures 33%
• Large-scale Structure 33%
• Fructification 33%
• Local Cells 33%
• Colonial Lives 33%
• Phylogenetic Comparative Methods 33%
• Phototropism 33%
• Evolutionary Novelty 33%
• Phenotypic Characters 33%

Immunology and Microbiology

• Dictyosteliida 100%
• Fruiting 100%
• Last Common Ancestor 66%
• Morphogenesis 33%
• Cell Density 33%
• Colony Formation 33%
• Phylogeny 33%
• Fruiting Body 33%
• Morphological Trait 33%
• Evolution 33%
• Cladistics 33%

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

• Fruiting 100%
• Dictyosteliida 75%
• Amoeba (Life Cycle Stage) 50%
• Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate 50%
• Last Common Ancestor 50%
• Morphological Trait 25%
• Cell Density 25%
• Phylogeny 25%
• Morphogenesis 25%
• Colony Formation 25%
• Evolution 25%
• Phototropism 25%
• Cladistics 25%