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Kimberly Chen

joined in Sep 10, 2019

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

Chen has 1 break published.

Predators drive the evolution of multicellularity

Discussions about the evolution of multicellularity tend to focus on animals and plants, but there have actually been at least 25 independent origins of multicellularity in the history of life on this planet, including fungi, slime molds, several groups of algae, cyanobacteria and myxobacteria. So... click to read more

Kimberly Chen | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Matthew Herron | Senior Research Scientist at School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

algae

microalgae

multicellularity

predation

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Sep 10, 2019

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