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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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Public Library of Science
2008
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| 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 |