The gene that stops the body cells of Volvox reproducing is called regA.

阻止团藻的体细胞生殖的基因叫regA。

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What Dr Nedelcu and Dr Michod did was to look for an antecedent of regA in a single-celled creature, in order to find out what its job was.

Nedeclu博士和Michod博士在单细胞生物中寻找regA的antecedent，从而了解它的作用。

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By searching for genetic sequences similar to regA in the burgeoning databases of genes that now exist, they found one in a unicellular alga called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

他们在现有的尚处于萌芽阶段的基因数据库中搜索与regA的基因序列相似的基因，并找到了一种属于单细胞藻类Chlamydomonas reinhardtii的基因。

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By searching for genetic sequences similar to regA in the burgeoning databases of genes that now exist, they found one in a unicellular alga called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

ECONOMIST: How to become multicellular

What Dr Nedelcu and Dr Michod did was to look for an antecedent of regA in a single-celled creature, in order to find out what its job was.

ECONOMIST: How to become multicellular

The gene that stops the body cells of Volvox reproducing is called regA. It works by suppressing the production of proteins needed to make new chloroplasts in a cell.

ECONOMIST: How to become multicellular