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Cellular allorecognition and its roles in Dictyostelium development and social evolution.
The International journal of developmental biology - 1 Jan 2019
Kundert Peter, Shaulsky Gad
Abstract excerpt
The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is a tractable model organism to study cellular allorecognition, which is the ability of a cell to distinguish itself and its genetically similar relatives from more distantly related organisms. Cellular allorecognition is ubiquitous across the tree of life and affects many biological processes. Depending on the biological context, these versatile systems operate both...
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