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Cooperative predation in the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum
The eukaryotic amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is commonly used to study sociality. The amoebae cooperate during development, exhibiting altruism, cheating, and kin-discrimination, but growth while preying on bacteria has been considered asocial. Here we show that Dictyostelium are cooperative preda...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6326426/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30625171 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209438 |