Article
Evolution of multicellularity in Dictyostelia.
The International journal of developmental biology - 1 Jan 2019
Kawabe Yoshinori, Du Qingyou, Schilde Christina, Schaap Pauline
Abstract excerpt
The well-orchestrated multicellular life cycle of Dictyostelium discoideum has fascinated biologists for over a century. Self-organisation of its amoebas into aggregates, migrating slugs and fruiting structures by pulsatile cAMP signalling and their ability to follow separate differentiation pathways in well-regulated proportions continue to be topics under investigation. A striking aspect of D. discoideum...
Topics
- Biological Evolution
- Cell Differentiation
- Cyclic AMP
- Dictyostelium
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Genome
- Genomics
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Protein Domains
- Signal Transduction