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Structured growth and genetic drift raise relatedness in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

Biology letters - 23 Oct 2012

Buttery Neil J, Jack Chandra N, Adu-Oppong Boahemaa, Snyder Kate T, Thompson Christopher R L, Queller David C, Strassmann Joan E

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One condition for the evolution of altruism is genetic relatedness between altruist and beneficiary, often achieved through active kin recognition. Here, we investigate the power of a passive process resulting from genetic drift during population growth in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. We put labelled and unlabelled cells of the same clone in the centre of a plate, and allowed them to proliferate...

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PMID: 22764109
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0421
PMCID: PMC3440995

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