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Science 9 October 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5387, p. 248
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5387.248
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DEVELOPMENT:
Model Metaorganism

A review by Graham Bell

Volvox Molecular-Genetic Origins of Multicellularity and Cellular Differentiation
David L. Kirk
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. 397 pp. $85. ISBN 0-521-45207-4.

This synthesis of genetic, evolutionary, and ecological analyses of Volvox and its unicellular and colonial relatives provides an excellent progress report on a model system for investigating the origins of multicellularity.
The author is director of the Redpath Museum, 859 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6, Canada, and in the Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada. E-mail: gbell2{at}maclan.mcgill.ca

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