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. 2024 May;8(5):856-857.
doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02391-y.

Multicellularity drives ecological diversity in a long-term evolution experiment

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Multicellularity drives ecological diversity in a long-term evolution experiment

No authors listed. Nat Ecol Evol. 2024 May.
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