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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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| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2010
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| 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 |