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Variation, sex, and social cooperation: molecular population genetics of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jul 2010
Flowers Jonathan M, Li Si I, Stathos Angela, Saxer Gerda, Ostrowski Elizabeth A, Queller David C, Strassmann Joan E, Purugganan Michael D
Abstract excerpt
Dictyostelium discoideum is a eukaryotic microbial model system for multicellular development, cell-cell signaling, and social behavior. Key models of social evolution require an understanding of genetic relationships between individuals across the genome or possibly at specific genes, but the nature of variation within D. discoideum is largely unknown. We re-sequenced 137 gene fragments in wild North American...
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