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Phylogeography and sexual macrocyst formation in the social amoeba Dictyostelium giganteum.

BMC evolutionary biology - 20 Jan 2010

Mehdiabadi Natasha J, Kronforst Marcus R, Queller David C, Strassmann Joan E

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BACKGROUND: Microorganisms are ubiquitous, yet we are only beginning to understand their diversity and population structure. Social amoebae (Dictyostelia) are a diverse group of unicellular eukaryotic microbes that display a unique social behaviour upon starvation in which cells congregate and then some die to help others survive and disperse. The genetic relationships among co-occurring cells have a major...

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PMID: 20089169
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-17
PMCID: PMC2824659

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