Volvox

by Kirk, David L.

"The central thesis of this book is that Volvox and its unicellular and colonial relatives provide a wholly unrivaled opportunity to explore the proximate and ultimate causes underlying the evolution, from unicellular ancestors, of multicellular organisms with fully differentiated cell types." "A major portion of the book is devoted to reviewing what is known about the genetic, cellular, and molecular bases of development in the most extensively studied species of Volvox: V. Carteri, which exhibits a complete division of labor between mortal somatic cells and immortal germ cells. However,...

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