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From individual behaviors to collective outcomes: fruiting body formation in Dictyostelium as a group-level phenotype.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Mar 2023
Kuzdzal-Fick Jennie J, Moreno Armando, Broersma Cathleen M E, Cooper Tim F, Ostrowski Elizabeth A
Abstract excerpt
Collective phenotypes, which arise from the interactions among individuals, can be important for the evolution of higher levels of biological organization. However, how a group's composition determines its collective phenotype remains poorly understood. When starved, cells of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum cooperate to build a multicellular fruiting body, and the morphology of the fruiting body is...
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