Article
Genetic diversity in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum: population differentiation and cryptic species.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Sept 2011
Douglas Tracy E, Kronforst Marcus R, Queller David C, Strassmann Joan E
Abstract excerpt
The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is a commonly used model organism for the study of social evolution, multicellularity, and cell biology. But the boundaries and structure of the species have not been explored. The lack of morphological traits to distinguish D. discoideum makes even knowing whether a given clone is D. discoideum a challenge. We address this with a phylogeny of a widespread collection of...
Topics
- Bayes Theorem
- Cell Nucleus
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Dictyostelium
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Speciation
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Phylogeny
- Sequence Analysis, DNA