Kin Discrimination Increases with Genetic Distance in a Social Amoeba

In the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, thousands of cells aggregate upon starvation to form a multicellular fruiting body, and approximately 20% of them die to form a stalk that benefits the others. The aggregative nature of multicellular development makes the cells vulnerable to exploitatio...

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Autores principales: Ostrowski, Elizabeth A, Katoh, Mariko, Shaulsky, Gad, Queller, David C, Strassmann, Joan E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2586364/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19067487
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060287

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2586364/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19067487
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060287

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