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Fruiting bodies of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum increase spore transport by Drosophila

BACKGROUND: Many microbial phenotypes are the product of cooperative interactions among cells, but their putative fitness benefits are often not well understood. In the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, unicellular amoebae aggregate when starved and form multicellular fruiting bodies in...

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Autores principales: smith, jeff, Queller, David C, Strassmann, Joan E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4038703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24884856
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-14-105