Cheating does not explain selective differences at high and low relatedness in a social amoeba

BACKGROUND: Altruism can be favored by high relatedness among interactants. We tested the effect of relatedness in experimental populations of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, where altruism occurs in a starvation-induced social stage when some amoebae die to form a stalk that lifts the f...

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Autores principales: Saxer, Gerda, Brock, Debra A, Queller, David C, Strassmann, Joan E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20226060
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-76

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20226060
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-76

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