Stress-induced collective behavior leads to the formation of multicellular structures and the survival of the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas
F. d. Carpentier, A. Maes, C. H. Marchand…·A. Danon
The paper identifies a stress-induced mechanism in Chlamydomonas that leads to multicellular structure formation, showing it provides protection and involves genetic reprogramming and secretome changes.