Self-Induced Cell Death in Microorganisms

This edited volume discusses the evolution of cell death in microorganisms by providing new theoretical models and experimental studies of microorganisms, both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. It incorporates the latest findings and evidence for bacterial self-destruction, cell-death in multicellular fungi, and potential cell-death mechanisms in unicellular species of algae, parasites, and pathogenic yeast.

Mechanisms of self-destruction by individual cells were assumed to arise during evolutio...