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Origins of structural grades and gamete dimorphisms mapped onto a composite phylogeny of the volvocine algae. Blue branches represent unicellular lineages, red branches represent colonial lineages, and green branches represent multicellular lineages. Bars indicate gamete dimorphism: A, anisogamy; AI, anisogamy with internal fertilization; O, oogamy. Isogamy is assumed to be ancestral
